Personal Accountability - Are We Creating Entitled Teenagers and Young Adults?

by Gloria Philips Expert Blogger

I simply heard about two cases that raised great alarm about our future. The thing is, We have always thought that we should put money into our kids with education because can become our future leaders. Now, I am just wondering about who can be our future leaders.

 

A professor for any University in Canada ordered, 50 of my books on The effectiveness of Personal Accountability. Normally, quantities of my books can be bought to Managers or HR Directors. But, it was a professor within the Science Department. I called to discover the way they were using my book. The professor said, "I am just buying it for my students." As she further explained, "Students today appear to have an entitled look at life. For instance, an individual who flunked the final test, arrived at me to argue about her grade. She stated that she deserved a "C" because she tried hard while using the test." She said, "reading your book is similar to allowing my students to consider a 'cold shower of reality' and the most typical remark is they view a link between accountability and happiness. After looking at your book, they may be more focused on studying, for their careers and also to establishing clear commitments to be able to enhance their lives."

 

Inside a different situation, I had been speaking with a manger who described these situation. "We have a young employee just from university. After nine months at work and failing, we made a decision to offer them another position they might be successful in, since we didn't wish to fire them. After being told regarding their insufficient performance and the chance to do another job within the company, the worker asked these question, 'Does this indicate I will obtain a raise within my pay?'"

 

Being a parent and educator, I find both of these stories a little scary. And, these aren't isolated types of a few things i hear on the fairly consistent basis. It really is clear these teenagers have not experienced accountability in a manner that will give them an awareness of behavior and consequences. I don't mean punishment, however i do mean natural cause and effect of life. When we as parents, teachers or coaches are providing our kids with excessive comfort to enable them to steer clear of the pain we familiar with life, we might be leading to their disease of entitlement. They just don't know better, simply because they haven't experienced anything different.

 

How exactly does this happen? Whenever we remove grades from your education system because we now have a lot of people flunking or getting D's. Whenever we as parents create agreements with this children simply to repeatedly make exceptions because we don't actually want to make our kids uncomfortable using the consequence. You want these to enjoy becoming a teenager and besides we weren't an ideal kids. Whenever we as managers set standards of performance, attitude and behavior but we don't have follow-up conversations that evaluate the person's effectiveness in meeting those standards because we have been too busy, we have been using the meaning from our commitments and agreements.

 

Accountability is crucial, not only to get results, however for learning and taking action to enhance our results and excellence of life. Without accountability individuals are lost inside a realm of expectation that when I appear, I ought to receive money and should i be there for enough time (annually) I ought to obtain a raise, simply because. Or, should i attend class around the test (regardless of how many classes I missed, the homework I didn't complete or even the test I failed, I ought to obtain a "C" because I showed up for your test.

 

    What exactly is your effect on those surrounding you? Are you currently teaching them accountability and learning from consequences we don't prefer, or are we protecting those around us from experiencing uncomfortable consequences?

 

    Are you currently modeling accountability using the commitments you are making as well as your reaction to those you break?

 

    What is the way you can increase positive accountability in your house or workplace?

Amplify your dreams of success into reality. James is an award winning international keynote speaker, best-selling author, and youth entrepreneur empowerment leadership trainer. Please check out http://www.jamesamps.com

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