responsibility be practiced, as can awareness of it. To do this, you need to be aware of what the prerequisites are. First, let's recall the six stages of responsibility awareness, which you may already be familiar with from our leadership seminar:
- Stage 1: Repression
"This can't be true." - Stage 2: Looking for someone to blame
"Who did this to me?" - Stage 3: Justification
"It's because this and that happened before." - Stage 4: Self-blame
"It's my own fault. If only I had..." - Stage 5: Commitment
"I have to live with it. I can't change it anyway." - Level 6: responsibility
"If I have to, then I want to..."
How to learn a sense of responsibility
Intention
You want to reach Level 6 out of deep conviction and make the decision to follow this path.
"I know that I enjoy responsibility and that I have the energy to do so at this level!"
Presence
You can observe your own thinking and define which mindset you are in in which situation. Many responsible people find themselves in stages 1 to 4. That's not a bad thing! It only becomes a problem when you start to feel bad about it because you have just blamed someone else, because it is difficult to get rid of this mindset and the feeling of guilt. If you want responsibility , learn to forgive yourself. You are human and not flawless.
Confrontation
Confront yourself with your mental state. You have reflected and realized that you need to let go and move on. You can also ask someone else to confront you with your mental state.
If you are now wondering whether you can skip stages on the way to greater responsibility, then unfortunately the answer is "no." It is a cycle that you will go through again and again.
- Observing your own thoughts (Interesting!)
- Getting caught (in moments of weakness).
- Letting go (It's only mental!)
- Forgive yourself (Move on.)
Be absolutely certain: you can go through this cycle because you have already been through this process once before. What you have achieved once, you can achieve countless times more. Move from the unconscious to the conscious—then it's time to practice—and then: let go, move on. Until you have cultivated it into a regular habit.
Don't forget: All these efforts ultimately revolve around the central core of personal responsibility. Don't take responsibility everything and everyone, but only for how you approach and respond to things. That is precisely what a sense of responsibility is all about.
If you internalize this, you can learn to control your mental states and ultimately practice responsibility . Learn to recognize the six steps and consciously climb them. You won't always succeed, but that's okay. Forgive yourself for being human and needing reassurance from time to time. Responsible people are ultimately concerned with delivering decisive results, not doing everything perfectly.
A sense of responsibility also means that people achieve exceptional results, and you can definitely do that!
Your team at the Grundl Leadership Institute
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