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Peterson Case Study: Accountability And Clear Communication

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Accountability and Clear Communication
A leader must also communicate clearly and integrate accountability within the youth organizing field in order to effectively create sustainable positive change in achieving a common goal. Prior to taking this course, I neglected to acknowledge this key component out of a general fear that holding people accountable may cause my students to dislike me and thus if they dislike me they would not follow. However, I have seen in the Peterson Case the fallacy of this in the ways in which he failed to hold his team accountable and ultimately his team was less successful in reaching their common goal under his leadership because of it. To accomplish accountability, I would like to begin imparting Charlotte …show more content…

I hope to apply these lessons by allowing the students the space to fail, which would mean that their advocacy campaign does not receive buy in necessary to have legislation implemented or their event has very low attendance, so that they can learn from the experiences and improve in the future. However, a risk to doing so is that the students may feel defeated resulting in a weakened morale. Therefor, I must clearly facilitate processes in which students are able to reflect on their experiences, consider and acknowledge when systems or I may be a contributing factor to the failure rather then them, and feel supported to continue to learn in a risky environment similarly to the ways in which Childrens’ Hospital approached nursing errors. In setting clear expectations that students follow through on tasks they are assigned or self-assigned and creating no-blame spaces where it is okay to fail, I believe the students will feel more empowered to have the confidence to perform and achieve success in their

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