Responsibility process
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Some years ago I met Christopher Avery (PhD, http://christopheravery.com/) on Agile conference and listened to one of his talks about the Responsibility Process. Through thousands of years human brain have been trained to avoid responsibility, we have build an subconscious and automatic process to guard us against it. It´s always somebody else´s fault, right? It´s the circumstances :), not us, right? In this talk, I´ll try to present The Responsibility Process (TM) itself as well as my personal experiences about its practical usage. I´ll show you a way to become more responsible!
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Responsibility process
- 1. The responsibility process
- 2. Sergey Dmitriev Agile coach since 2005
- 3. Christopher Avery.com • Proponent of The Responsibility Process TM • PhD • More than 20 years of research on responsibility • Speaker, author, and mentor • ChristopherAvery.com
- 4. Who ruined my garden wall?
- 5. When something goes wrong
- 7. Responsibility avoided
- 8. Lay blame
- 9. Lay blame Responsibility avoided
- 10. Justify I´m blond What´s your excuse?
- 11. Responsibility avoided Justify I´m blond What´s your excuse?
- 12. Shame
- 13. Shame Responsibility avoided
- 14. Obligation Do not press the red button
- 15. Obligation Responsibility avoided Do not press the red button
- 24. Daily usage cents dimes
- 25. speakerrate.com/sergey follow me: Blackie6
- 26. Credits • Flickr: Shadowgate • Martin Bolchover
Editor's Notes
- Today we are going to talk about the responsibility. Responsibility is the key to any hyperperforming team I´ve seen.
- coaching teams in 4 countries, distributed and co-located, remote and on-site, big and small
- I met Christopher on an Agile conference in US some years ago and have been fascinated by his work on responsibility. I´m gonna present his famous responsibility process.
- Through thousands of years, we have been trained to avoid responsibility. We searched for the guilty ones. We punished them. We avoided responsibility.
- No one thinks much about personal responsibility when things are going well. When something goes wrong large or small (lost keys or lost retirement account), the Responsibility Process kicks in. And it just happens automatically thereof. Your mind will throw one solution after another about how to avoid responsibility. What is our first reaction when something bad happens?
- What is our first reaction when something bad happens? Its denial. Something happened. Obs, nobody seen it. Problem solved, responsibility avoided. Ignoring the  existence of something
- If we don´t take it as an answer. Something happened. Somebody walks in the room. Obs, somebody seen it. Can I blame others? Oh, there was a cat over there. Hairy little bastard jumped right into the glass. It´s the cat. Problem solved, responsibility avoided. Holding others at fault for causing something
- If I don´t take it as an answer. Something happened. I´m not into denial, and the cat wasn´t there. Well, I must being... blond. We find excuses for things being the way they are.
- But what if I´m not blond? I dont take justify as an answer. What´s then? it´s the stupid me. Shame on me. I´m not good at anything. I cant even hold a freaking glass in my hands. I feel guilty. Laying blame onto oneself (often felt as guilt)
- And still I dont want to take it as an answer. Who wants to feel guilty after all? No its not me. Damn it! I had to do it. It was the only right thing to do at that moment. I had to. I had no choice. Doing what you have to instead of what you want to
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
- Here is the responsibility process poster as Christopher Avery puts it. As long as we take one of the things below the bar as an answer we quit. We avoid responsibility. And only when we are gone through all these 5 stages can we find our way to personal responsibility. Its all in our hands. We are free, powerful and have choice. This one hangs in the meeting rooms of Nokia (anybody from Nokia here to confirm?), in the swedish parliament and in my toilet so that I get a reminder every day.
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