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How public accountability impacts planning

Public accountability empowers individuals to take responsibility for their role in achieving team goals. Watch Paddy Upton discuss.

Public accountability empowers individuals to take responsibility for their role in achieving team goals.

When there is public accountability within the team, in the context of a safe and trusting environment, all players are encouraged to identify what they will do to help achieve the team goal.

They can announce this to the team or to a teammate, thus making sure their actions and behaviours are clear not only to themselves, but to others on the team as well.

In the video, I illustrate this idea with strategies from my own practice.

Your task

Explain the strategies, from those outlined in the video or those you already use, that would be most beneficial/detrimental to coaching in your context.

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