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Conscious Accountability: Deepen Connections, Elevate Results
Elevate Your Work and Relationships Through Conscious Accountability
Results and relationships―managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don’t have to choose between being the hard-charging task master and being the easy-going people pleaser. By expanding your awareness to create deliberate intentions, take informed actions, and be responsible for your impact, you can achieve better business outcomes and experience greater satisfaction in doing so.
In Conscious Accountability , Yale professors, psychologists, and leadership consultants David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David invite you to think about yourself and your working relationships more completely and integrate a practice of conscious accountability in your daily life. A forward-thinking approach to realizing organizational and team goals, conscious accountability can help you move beyond traditional ways of engaging with your employees, team members, and peers. The impact will be transformative.
To help you develop the skills and the mindsets of conscious accountability, this book introduces a straightforward and powerful CONNECT framework that gives you the tools you need to better relate to everyone in your professional (and personal) life, build trust, and motivate yourself and your colleagues for greater outcomes. Step up your game by following the seven practices of conscious accountability―creating clarity, opening up engagement, nailing it, noticing, exchanging feedback, claiming it, and trying again. You will connect more closely to others, put people in a position to succeed, elevate and distinguish yourself, and generate excellence everywhere you turn.
Results and relationships―managers and leaders no longer have to prioritize one over the other to build a culture of exceptional accountability. You don’t have to choose between being the hard-charging task master and being the easy-going people pleaser. By expanding your awareness to create deliberate intentions, take informed actions, and be responsible for your impact, you can achieve better business outcomes and experience greater satisfaction in doing so.
In Conscious Accountability , Yale professors, psychologists, and leadership consultants David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David invite you to think about yourself and your working relationships more completely and integrate a practice of conscious accountability in your daily life. A forward-thinking approach to realizing organizational and team goals, conscious accountability can help you move beyond traditional ways of engaging with your employees, team members, and peers. The impact will be transformative.
To help you develop the skills and the mindsets of conscious accountability, this book introduces a straightforward and powerful CONNECT framework that gives you the tools you need to better relate to everyone in your professional (and personal) life, build trust, and motivate yourself and your colleagues for greater outcomes. Step up your game by following the seven practices of conscious accountability―creating clarity, opening up engagement, nailing it, noticing, exchanging feedback, claiming it, and trying again. You will connect more closely to others, put people in a position to succeed, elevate and distinguish yourself, and generate excellence everywhere you turn.
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292 pages, Paperback
Published August 16, 2022
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August 16, 2022
Professor David Tate and coauthors give us what we need so desperately now ... a roadmap for accountability. We can be the people others trust and turn to. In doing so, they show us the humanity accountability fosters.
August 16, 2022
I was intrigued when I read pre-release information about this book. Now having read it, I am not disappointed! Not only is it clearly written but the principles it presents are deeply clarifying. The authors explain that accountability is not the cost of being a leader but rather the means to effective leadership. Wise, readable, and actionable. I look forward to putting what I learned into use.
October 14, 2022
David C. Tate, Marianne S. Pantalon, and Daryn H. David’s new work is Conscious Accountability: Deepen Connections, Elevate Results. While somewhat cryptic in terms of specificity, the title essentially encapsulates the tonality and topicality of the read from A to Z. This kind of conciseness is always a good sign, in my book. It indicates a sense of ease with respect to information and communication, that as a reader you’re in good hands and don’t have to do excess thinking or reading between the lines. Part of the more transient nature of the book’s christening is because the issues themselves Tate, Pantalon, and David highlight are transient. They’re not necessarily things that are statistically-backed, pertaining instead to statistically-backed observations of current trends, dynamics, and methodologies affecting one positively and simultaneously in personal and professional milieus.
“Have you ever worked with someone who was really good at accountability? Someone who helped get the job done while also raising their game along the way? Someone you would never dream of letting down? The type of person who always brings the best out of everyone around them? What qualities come to mind that would describe this person?…You do not have to look very far to see why accountability is important. It is everywhere - in our workplaces, in our marriages and families, in our friendships, and in our communities. It exists with the person we see each morning in the mirror and with strangers we will never meet. Accountability matters because it lies at the core of healthy and productive human relationships. It functions as an invisible thread that connect us to other people and enables more effective interactions with others in fundamental ways. Its presence or absence can mean the difference between success and failure, between the extraordinary or the mediocre, and even between life and death.”
Such statements could be rendered meaningless if there wasn’t a diversely exampled, specific and precise breakdown of real-world, tangible scenarios in which their application applies. It’s funny how altruism is finally getting its moment in the sun when it comes to workplace postmodernism. But Tate, Pantalon, and David don’t stop there. They’re unafraid of adding a little bit of personal sentimentality to the mix. In less capable hands, this could be a serious credibility problem. But Tate, Pantalon, and David have enough professional integrity so this never happens. It just humanizes what could otherwise be somewhat dry, and intellectually exclusive information. “To bring (the) concepts to life, we draw from the rich experiences of our lives and those of our clients,” the trio writes. “Across the book we will share our own stories and present real, fictional, and hybrid accounts that cover a range of different industries (healthcare, academia, finance, and technology) and business types (startups, nonprofits, family run, private equity, Fortune 1000), based on our work coaching and consulting with practitioners, leaders, and teams. In presenting these cases, we have worked hard to anonymize any features that could identify the people on whom such stories may be based. We hope they will bring to life the successes and setbacks that can occur when accountability is involved.”
“Have you ever worked with someone who was really good at accountability? Someone who helped get the job done while also raising their game along the way? Someone you would never dream of letting down? The type of person who always brings the best out of everyone around them? What qualities come to mind that would describe this person?…You do not have to look very far to see why accountability is important. It is everywhere - in our workplaces, in our marriages and families, in our friendships, and in our communities. It exists with the person we see each morning in the mirror and with strangers we will never meet. Accountability matters because it lies at the core of healthy and productive human relationships. It functions as an invisible thread that connect us to other people and enables more effective interactions with others in fundamental ways. Its presence or absence can mean the difference between success and failure, between the extraordinary or the mediocre, and even between life and death.”
Such statements could be rendered meaningless if there wasn’t a diversely exampled, specific and precise breakdown of real-world, tangible scenarios in which their application applies. It’s funny how altruism is finally getting its moment in the sun when it comes to workplace postmodernism. But Tate, Pantalon, and David don’t stop there. They’re unafraid of adding a little bit of personal sentimentality to the mix. In less capable hands, this could be a serious credibility problem. But Tate, Pantalon, and David have enough professional integrity so this never happens. It just humanizes what could otherwise be somewhat dry, and intellectually exclusive information. “To bring (the) concepts to life, we draw from the rich experiences of our lives and those of our clients,” the trio writes. “Across the book we will share our own stories and present real, fictional, and hybrid accounts that cover a range of different industries (healthcare, academia, finance, and technology) and business types (startups, nonprofits, family run, private equity, Fortune 1000), based on our work coaching and consulting with practitioners, leaders, and teams. In presenting these cases, we have worked hard to anonymize any features that could identify the people on whom such stories may be based. We hope they will bring to life the successes and setbacks that can occur when accountability is involved.”
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August 24, 2022Invaluable tool for success in business and life (and fun to read!)
This book is unique in the way it combines many disciplines and philosophies into one comprehensive strategy for our current day. The world has changed so dramatically in the last five years. Inclusivity is now a real and increasingly actionable (and measured) goal; cultural and self awareness in terms of how you are consciously and unconconsciously impacting others are necessary strategies to be successful in life and business. This guide walks you through all of these elements, as well as the concept of conscious accountability and ties them into a comprehensive overview. It also provides you with concrete examples of how success and failure in these areas dramatically impacts outcomes. Finally, it leaves you with very actionable strategies to implement what you have learned in any business OR personal environment. I will return to this book often. p.s. it is very engaging, interesting and readable. I would even go so far as to say it's a great summer read!
This book is unique in the way it combines many disciplines and philosophies into one comprehensive strategy for our current day. The world has changed so dramatically in the last five years. Inclusivity is now a real and increasingly actionable (and measured) goal; cultural and self awareness in terms of how you are consciously and unconconsciously impacting others are necessary strategies to be successful in life and business. This guide walks you through all of these elements, as well as the concept of conscious accountability and ties them into a comprehensive overview. It also provides you with concrete examples of how success and failure in these areas dramatically impacts outcomes. Finally, it leaves you with very actionable strategies to implement what you have learned in any business OR personal environment. I will return to this book often. p.s. it is very engaging, interesting and readable. I would even go so far as to say it's a great summer read!
August 20, 2022
There are few variables as important as autonomy support to predict work performance, creativity, and group decision-making. Thus, it only makes sense to read an entire book on how to truly create an autonomy supportive environment. This book isn't just for leaders, coaches, and people who want greater well-being at work. It's also for parents, athletic coaches, and anyone who wants to improve their relationships.
Level up. Get this book. Know this - David Tate knows how to write. There is such as vast reservoir of boring articles and books on this topic. Not this one. Enjoy, I did.
Level up. Get this book. Know this - David Tate knows how to write. There is such as vast reservoir of boring articles and books on this topic. Not this one. Enjoy, I did.
August 16, 2022
This is a terrific book that uses evidence-based insights to help us build the kind of relationships we need to have at work for both individual and group success. A must read.
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