This document provides guidance on having accountability conversations in 3-3-1 format over 15 minutes. It discusses creating safety first by clarifying intentions, stating facts separately from stories, sharing personal interpretations, and asking what is missing from others' perspectives. The document was created by Dan Griffiths, director of strategic planning at an accounting firm, who has experience in leadership development and business coaching.

1. Accountability Conversations
A Skill That You Can Develop

2. 3‐3‐1 in 15 minutes
•What’s working?
•What’s not?
•One goal

3. What images does the word Accountability
conjure up?
What Should
I Say???

4. Create Safety First

5. Why Start with Safety?

6. What’s Going On With Your Brain?

7. Create Safety
Warmth . . . And . . . Strength
• Do you mean me harm?
• Do you have the capacity to
carry it out?

8. Catastrophizing
We’re all going We’re all going
to die!!!!

9. What Can You Do to Make it Safe?

10. Structural Improvements . . .

11. Step 1: Get Your Heart Right

12. Stuck in a Rut? It’s Likely All in Your Head . . .

13. What will put you in the right frame of mind?

14. Step 2: Clarify Your Intentions
[we come in peace]
We come in . . .

15. Fundamental Attribution Error

16. Fundamental Attribution Error

17. Fundamental Attribution Error

18. Clarify Your Intentions
[we come in peace] Practice a Contrasting
Statement.
What I don’t want . . .
What I do want . . .

19. Step 3: State the Facts

20. Separate Facts from Stories
vs.

21. Separate Facts from Stories

22. Step 4: Tell Your Story
What do the
facts mean?
How do you
interpret them?

23. Be tentative . . .

24. Step 5: What am I missing?

25. Accountability is a Choice

26. Dan Griffiths, CPA, CGMA is the Director of Strategic
Planning at Tanner, LLC, a Salt Lake City‐based professional
services firm with 85 team members. Prior to merging his
practice with Tanner, he co‐founded Proficio Services Group
to provide strategic & business planning, leadership
development, and business coaching services. Dan is a
graduate of the 2010 AICPA Leadership Academy and in
2011‐2012 served as the chair of the Young CPA Network
Committee for the AICPA. Dan has also been very active
with the UACPA and in 2011 was recognized as the
Outstanding CPA in Business and Management. He was
recently selected to serve as Utah’s elected member of the
AICPA Governing Council. Dan is an avid flyfisher,
backpacker, and gardener. He and his wife Bibiana just
welcomed their fourth child to the family.
Contact Dan at: dgriffiths@tannerco.com
Or connect with him on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/in/dangriffithscpa