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Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about

the power of self-accountability. If you've been to my seminars, especially my two-day

how to master the art of

accountability class, you've heard me talk about the four levels of accountability in any organization.

Let me give you a little insight into what this is in case you're not familiar with it. So most organizations have a blend of these four levels,

but there is one that dominates. Real quickly, you've got level four, let's start at the

bottom and we'll work up. Level four is no accountability. As bad as that sounds, it actually happens

quite a bit. Somebody comes in late, nothing happens. They come in late again, nothing happens. There's

no consequence. They don't hit the numbers, nothing happens. Level four, it will destroy a culture.

A step up from that is level three,

which is top down. Top down is good. It's important. The leader needs to do his or her job.

I'm just saying there are two levels better than that. So now somebody comes in late,

somebody doesn't hit the numbers, the manager, that supervisor is addressing that. Level two is

so much stronger. Level two is peer to peer.

Now you have people that are on equal ground with one another title-wise that are holding each other

accountable. They're nudging each other. They're giving each other feedback. They've got that

positive peer pressure that they don't want to let their teammates down. That is so much more impactful

than top down. And is so much more impactful than

top down. And the more that you have, the better it is for your culture. But the ultimate

type of accountability is level one, which is self-accountability. And nearly every leader I know

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