IMPORTANT: have 6-8 in-text citations using at least three different academic sources. At least

IMPORTANT: have 6-8 in-text citations using at least three different academic sources. At least three (3) citations must be from the assigned course textbook.

Using the text, Crucial Accountability, you will be making some key discoveries about areas that

you both succeed and struggle with in keeping yourself and others accountable. Follow these

steps:

Step 1: READ THE TEXT & TAKE THE ASSESSMENT: After reading the textbook, take the Self-

Assessment Survey (Appendix A, pp. 140) and review your results. The survey is divided in

the seven chapters of the book that cover the crucial accountability skills (five questions each).

You will need to read each chapter in order to understand your results and the process of

holding healthy accountability conversations. You will be handing in your completed Self-

Assessment Survey worksheet in a separate Moodle dropbox for the professor to review before

you complete your paper AND you will be attaching the same document to this paper as

Appendix A: Self-Assessment Survey

Step 2: ANALYZE & EVALUATE: Choose TWO (2) of the SEVEN (7) areas where you scored the

most “YES” answers and observe, analyze and reflect on those specific areas. Consider the

following:

o What does this score mean to you about your ability to hold yourself or others

accountable? Discuss.

o Does it accurately reflect some areas of weakness in your accountability? Discuss

and explain your answer with examples from your life.

o Consider how your MVS shows up in the area of accountability. Include any insights

you may have about SDI results and your Crucial Accountability Survey results.

o For each of these 2 accountability areas you wrote about, make 2

recommendations how you can improve your accountability to yourself and others

as you navigate bad behavior and broken promises in your work/home/school/ life

relationships. For example, if you are evaluating, “Describing the Gap”, what two

recommendations can you make for yourself in this specific area to improve your

ability to describe the gap when holding an accountability conversation. Do this for

both of the sections you are analyzing.

Step 3: RECOMMENDATIONS: Based on what you have learned from the textbook, online

lectures and activities answer this question —> Why do you think accountability is an important

leadership skill – personally and organizationally? Provide support, citations and an example or

two to support your thinking from all course material to date and other outside sources as

applicable.