This is a set of ideas and methodology based on Peter Block's work that supports the creation of a culture of chosen accountability and commitment. It is premised on partnership and personal choice, and radically different from traditional skinnerian approach to change.

1. An Engaged Workforce: Chosen Accountability and Commitment

2. Engagement is the individual and collective choice of how we choose to be together

3. Accountability and Commitment are the essence of an engaged workforce … caring for the whole without expectation of a return…

7. The shift is from Parenting to Partnership

8. To create chosen accountability and commitment, the critical task of leadership is to be intentional about the way we group people and the questions that we engage them in.

9. The nature of the conversation shifts the moment we believe that conversations of: Invitation replaces Mandate Ownership replaces Blame Possibility replaces Problem Solving Dissent replaces Lip Service Commitment replaces Barter Gifts replaces Deficiencies

10. Each conversation needs to be customized with its own set of questions.