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A Note From Christopher

Greetings,

I hope this finds you well. If you were expecting this eTip late last week you have a good memory since I had promised it in a note last Monday. My apologies.

There is so much for you in this eTip I'm going to keep this note short. Please read each section. I'm especially excited about the 2009 schedule for Knowledge Team Leadership (I hope to see you), my interview this Thursday with Dr. Harvey Barnett on my talk radio show Beyond Obligation, and the release of my powerful new Do-It-Yourself DVD-based workshop The Journey to Responsibility & Self-Leadership (you've got to get this in your business).

Dedicated to your Freedom, Power, and Choice,

Christopher Avery PhD
Your Responsibility Coach for Life

P.S. And remember, my every second Tuesday free live tele-clinic Ask Christopher Avery is a week from today. If you could ask me your single biggest question about how to use your Responsibility Process™ and Keys to Responsibility to lead, team and succeed, what would you ask?

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Did you know?

Those infants you love can be trained to rescue themselves from drowning

Dr. Harvey Barnett, whom I'll interview on my talk radio show Beyond Obligation this Thursday at Noon CST, tells me drowning is the leadiing cause of accidental death for infants. The cost of medical care in the US for near-drowning victims 4 and under is $3.4 Billion annually.

He's invested 44 years developing the self-rescue techniqe and training for infants. Over 178,000 infants have been trained with Barnett's method with nearly 780 documented cases of self-rescue and no drownings among those trained.

Watch this amazing video of one of Dr. Barnett's infant students. Join me Thursday to hear Dr. Barnett's amazing life story about confronting realities no one else even considered.

Feature Article: Responsibility eTip by Christopher Avery PhD

Why Mastering Responsibility is a Must for Effective Leadership

Whether your leadership intent is an effective partnership, team, or entire enterprise, mastering responsibiity will accelerate your progress. "Mastery" means having mastered your own internal Responsibility Process™ and applying the 3 Keys to Responsibility™ in daily life for ever greater freedom, choice, and power.

Here's 3 reasons why mastering responsibility is a must for effective leadership.

1. Leaders respond - It's what they do. Feeling a sense of ownership (yes, an internal unmistakable feeling state) for a situation defines leadership. That's why they are leaders. When you don't feel a sense of ownership you won't respond resourcefully, hence you won't be leading.

When someone in leadership Lays Blame, Justifies, or operates from Shame or Obligation, they've ceased to respond resourcefully. They are stuck—stopped—and that's the opposite of leading.

2. Others amplify leader's acts - Fair or foul, moral or immoral, supportive or denigrating, conniving or freeing, a leader's actions are scrutinized and amplified by and through followers. If you want followers to take ownership, then you must master the practice of demonstrating ownership at all times -- especially when things are going wrong.

3. Followers won't demonstrate greater responsibility than their leaders - It just makes complete sense that no level of an organization will demonstrate high levels of responsibility-taking than the level to which it reports (actually, the more responsible ones leave). This one principle suggests a number of decisions and expectations. First, you shouldn't expect your followers as a whole to step up any higher than you do (Correlary: If you think your people are your problem, look again). Second, for obvious reasons seek leadership mentors who are responsibility masters. Third, realize leadership is about far more than hitting metrics, it's about owning all actions and consequences across all arenas.

Step up. You are more powerful than you know.

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