#135: Accountability Is Not Criticism
The Game Changer Life
Dave Anderson
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
We all need feedback in order to grow, and whether you're being held accountable, or holding others accountable, it's important to realize that criticizing isn't an effective way to improve performance. Accountability is, and in this episode Dave sheds light on the difference between the two so that when you're receiving feedback you view it in the right manner and grow because of it, and when you're giving feedback you do it in a way that helps the individual reach their fullest potential.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all |
| 0:22.3 | aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson. |
| 0:28.3 | Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. In this episode, I want to talk about |
| 0:33.0 | accountability is not criticism. Now, whether you're being held accountable or holding someone else |
| 0:41.3 | accountable, I believe you'll find some value in this episode. You know, the fact is we all need |
| 0:45.8 | feedback to grow. And whether you're being held accountable or holding someone else accountable, |
| 0:51.0 | as I just said, it's important to realize that while criticizing isn't an effectively to improve performance, accountability is. And there are two very different things. |
| 1:00.2 | Now, game changers crave accountability. They crave constructive feedback because they want to improve. |
| 1:06.4 | Some of the other groups, the undertaker, caretaker, playmaker, not as much because remember, the Undertaker very often is not doing even baseline work, |
| 1:17.4 | and oftentimes it's either they don't care. |
| 1:20.0 | If they don't know how to do it, then accountability can certainly help them improve. |
| 1:24.2 | The caretaker could do more, but they're not. |
| 1:26.2 | They're just kind of maintaining things and going through the motions. And so, yeah, some accountability and some |
| 1:32.8 | constructive criticism might help me tweak a thing here or there. And the playmaker, yeah, |
| 1:37.3 | sometimes when they feel like it, when their ego doesn't get in the way. But the game |
| 1:41.3 | changer craves it. The game changer craves it. And they know |
| 1:45.0 | that as they improve, they will be bringing more of those eight key game changer traits to the |
| 1:50.0 | table every day. More effort, energy, enthusiasm, excellence, passion, attitude, focus, and integrity. |
| 1:55.4 | And I really think it says a lot about you, says a lot about me, with how you take criticism and how you take |
| 2:03.2 | accountability. |
| 2:04.0 | And they are two different things and you'll see more what I mean as we get into the differences |
| 2:08.5 | and some tips for both giving it and receiving it in this program. |
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