Three people discuss what accountability means in groups. Showing up to meetings matters, as does notifying others when you can't. But accountability also means listening actively, sharing honestly, and contributing to the conversation. Silent members who don't engage are seen as not pulling their weight.
I think the first measure of accountability is your commitment to attend. And, you know, I think if you don't attend the meetings, you know, majority of the meetings, and you don't also show common courtesy and when you can't attend and making a good excuse, you know, making excuse for it and saying you can't attend, just not turning up is really being unaccountable.
From my standpoint, the accountability is just to be honest and fully involved all the time. In other words, when I was at that meeting, I had no other agenda than to be to them whatever I could be. In general, it's a very accepting group of people that make you feel welcome. And cared about early and often.
Accountability comes in in that willingness to listen and to share and to follow the basic council rules of speaking from your own experience and speak to try and help that person. Would it work for someone who sat there all day and said nothing? Probably not. And I think that, that person would realize very quickly either he has to change or he needs to move on.
When you're running a business, accountability is something that many of us, the only person we're accountable to is the one in the mirror, or so we think. Whereas if there's peers here who are holding you accountable or at least expecting an answer, they're not going to sit very still for 'Ah, well, I haven't done anything with that.' 'Oh, well, I'm just gonna put that off.' You can't just keep putting decisions off, especially critical decisions that are important to the future of the business. And in our case, in the future of the family, so it kind of goes hand in hand.
