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640. Understanding (I)individual responsibility · Daily Influence

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to Daily Influence, your daily dose of positive influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Brian Smith founder of IA Business Advisors and co-author of the Iain team series.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, everybody, Brian Smith here with the IAM team series and the Daily Influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And today,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: we're diving into the responsibility of individual influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And to recap what we have talked about all on what our vision is for individualism.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think we should define individual again for you briefly.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Individual to us is small eye or single.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You by yourself individual and you play a part
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  [SPEAKER_00]: in your areas of influence, whatever areas of influence, you are in at the moment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be family, friends, work.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The public, it doesn't matter what it is, but you are individual by yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And it is you, and you have singular responsibility.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then there's individual, the large eye, as we talk it, and what we mean by that is, when we come together as individual people,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: representing one larger group.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be your family.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be a team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It could be a department or a division or just you and one other person.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Any group that represents a common interest is individual.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They have an individual responsibility collectively.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Each of them, to that individual, for whatever it is they're doing within that larger individual unit group of people's area of influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're starting to dive into what we think is the most important responsibility we have as individuals, and that's your influence, and individual responsibility is huge, and I'm not sure that humans always, people always, companies, individuals, larger groups, always understand the responsibility that they create for themselves.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that they get off track, they think about the wrong things, they think about the money or the status or their egos, or whatever it is that can deflect us, that can get us off topic and forget about our responsibilities.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And when we forget about our responsibilities, whatever they are in our areas of influence, that's when issues can happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'll use safety as an example.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If as an individual person, I'm not paying attention to my responsibility to myself to keep myself safe.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm in an environment like construction or an area where there are hazards and risks.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not paying attention to my area of influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not paying attention having situation awareness.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I put myself at risk.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I am being irresponsible to myself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: environment that requires me to focus on what safety might mean.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And I am not paying attention to all aspects of that that I am failing my responsibility to keep not just myself, but others safe in that environment.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And there's dramatic things that can happen when we allow these to happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: these issues to happen.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For example, using the safety world as an analogy for responsibility, if I allow people who are under my area of influence, who I am responsible for, to create bad habits within safety, and I allow that to happen without holding them accountable for what they're doing, which is my responsibility, and one of them gets hurt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: then I, too, own part of that responsibility for them being hurt.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I, too, am responsible for the consequences.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, individually they had an obligation to follow the rules.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And individually, they are responsible for their actions.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But when we as leaders allow people to develop bad habits because we don't enforce the rules, the policies, the procedures that we put in place, then we are culpable too.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And this is what we talk about about individual responsibility, understanding and accepting your responsibility.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: For whatever it is in your area of influence of one
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We take on a lot of responsibilities that oftentimes we take for granted.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We don't actually think through what it is we are going to be responsible for how our influence will affect others and it can be just as simple as not holding people accountable for the policies procedures, the rules that we've put in place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: allowing them to create bad habits, allowing them to get away with things that we shouldn't be allowing them to get away with.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And then when those bad things cause something bad to happen to them or to our organization, we wanna blame them for not doing their job yet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't do our job.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't create or follow through on our responsibility to support them to do it right in the first place.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: think about your areas of influence.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Think about the responsibilities you have, where in your life, can you upskill yourself and upskill those around you who may fall under your influence, who may look to you for support, who get guidance from you.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How can you help them elevate their areas of influence?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: their level of understanding and make them more responsible for themselves and for the responsibilities that they have taken on and that you have delegated to them.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What can you do in that area of influence?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You need to slow down.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You need to focus on those problems and you need to ask yourself, have I created an environment that sets the stage for irresponsible behavior?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have I created an
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  [SPEAKER_00]: that is fraught with risk because I myself, as a leader, haven't created an environment that provides for structure, that provides for accountability, that provides for expectations that are smart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We've set specific and measurable goals and tactical thresholds for our team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Have we created attainable goals in realistic,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: metrics for our team and are we doing it in a timeline in a time frame that supports them individually and as a group.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So I challenge you, look at your areas of responsibility as a single person, look at your areas of responsibility within the organizations or groups who are individual moving towards common goals and see if you can't upscore them, elevate them and bring them to a new threshold of understanding of individual responsibility is being the best influence we can.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: and preparing ourselves for understanding what responsible influence really is today for all of us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I hope you have a great day.