Hi Dave Stahoviac here, host of coaching for leaders, accountability. It's one of those words we all recognize is so important in leadership, but it's never fun to hold people accountable for things. And again and again, what I hear from leaders is that accountability

becomes so much harder when expectations aren't clear. That's why I'm bringing

you a conversation today with Patrick Peralta.

Before Patrick attended the Academy, he concluded that he needed to get better at accountability.

Here's my chat with him on what he did. I'm talking today with Patrick Baralta.

I'm talking today with Patrick Baralta.

He is one of our graduates of the Coaching for Leaders Academy and also a member of our community.

Patrick, so good to see you.

Hi Dave, thank you so much for inviting me.

This is great.

Oh, I am so looking forward to this conversation

and talking a bit about your experience, to start would you share just a bit about

your work and what keeps you busy professionally?

Absolutely. Yeah, so I'm a software engineering manager. I work at a large technology company and the software that my team works on is for managing large IT infrastructure.

So we have a variety of different developers,

some back-end developers, some front-end developers,

and we have a whole range of different things

that we work on, creating the code, helping

customers when they encounter problems, and you know just planning future

versions and just that kind of thing. Yeah, you are in the middle of technology and also the people

side of it every single day aren't you? Absolutely, definitely the technology side

is an important piece and the people piece for me is just as important if not more so.

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