AC208 Accountability (1)

Facilitator: Prabha Chandrasekhar
2009/3/24 & 31, 4/7

What is your intention to attend this class today? What do you want to take away from today’s class?

Accountability
- Responsibility, and other words come with accountability

What are the benefits of accountability? What do we talk about it especially in coaching?
- When we are accountable, we could make the coaching process move forward and take the next step
- We are setting up an good example of being accountable to our clients

How to help client so be accountable
- Write down the goals and action plan. Then keep tracking on it.

Accountability Management
- As coaches, we measure for clients of how much do they invest and what they accomplish.
- Make the relationship positive

Can you describe accountability looks like? If it is a person, how does it look?
- Gentle, Loyalty, Committed, Task-oriented, Being there, Nurturing with support, Get the best of the other person

There are some persons, teacher, friends or family members whom we could feel comfortable and play with but we could still accomplish the tasks from these people. In the coaching relationship with accountability: the client respects me and I respect the client. Accountability includes trust and clarity.

What are some other things that we could do to be accountable as coaches?
- Follow up as we promise
- Be prepare for coaching session

How can we make sure that our clients are accountable?
- Get a commitment from them
- Ask them how would they do it
- Create the responsibility for them
- Ask them why they want to do that and what are the benefits of doing that? (We could help client to think more - “do I really want to do it?” Is it other person’s expectation or suggestion or our client really want to do it.)

Sometimes making change is not comfortable. Give our clients some time. Have them visualize the results and benefits of the action. Let our clients keep their pace of taking the action.

Be aware of the resources and time
Be aware of the difficulties