Ok. So I've been thinking about accountability a lot this week. Then I realized that I am just one member of this team (Bonner Love!!) Over the next few weeks, we will be laying the framework for how we as a team decide on how to keep each other to our commitments as a strong, united community. So here is your first chance to ponder this ongoing conversation:"Accountability is responsibility taken to the next level."
As an individual, you have signed on to a set of expectations to serve, attend meetings/training, connect your service and academics, etc., and be a team. Ultimately, you are accountable for its successes and failures.
Consider: How do you foster this feeling of ownership? Or how do you assign accountability for one another that upholds our commitment to the team? Why is this important?
3 comments:
I want us to be more than a group of people who enjoy service and go to meetings together. Since we are a TEAM, let's make efforts to bond and share our experiences. What I think is a great component of the Bonner program is that many of us will be placed at different locations, so we can learn from each other. Once I start at my placement, I am going to strive to be present to the people with whom I am working, reflect afterwards, and be willing to share my experiences with you all. I hope you will all want to meet me half way with this so I can hear about your time serving too.
I want to be a part of the Bonner Program for intrinsic reasons (becomming more involved in community service on a continuous basis, meeting people who share this interest and extending my education to apply in real world situaitons [not living in the bubble of academia]). Throughout the program, my goal is to keep this relevant-to remember I joined because I ultimately want to fulfill these expectations, not because someone told me to. I think viewing my experience like this, rather than as a burden, will help to keep me on track in terms of being available to you all.
I'm excited to get accustomed to the Bonner flow, since I am still feeling out the program right now.
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On accountability, I think it is very important. We've been saying for a while that "It is an Honor to be a Bonner" So with that, I sort of feel that all of the B-Love Responsibilities, especially accountability, is also an Honor.
We are the Varsity Team of Awesomeness! And as apart of being an awesome team, we look to always do our awesome job, make our awesome impressions, and help to make the world more awesome!
So, yes it is a commitment, but I also view it as an honor or priveledge. We are accountable not only because we have to be, but because we want to be for each other, and also just because we are.
We are a TEAM. If one starts slacking, the team will be there to help pick up the pieces. If a load is to heavy on one's shoulders, then the team will be there to help alleviate.
Accountability is important in that in our line of work as awesome people, people need to trust us. People need to know that Bonners, not just us but Bonners accross the nation, are the ISH. When they give us a task, they should not have any doubts, worries, or concerns. They should give us a task because we will be the most qualified for the task at hand.
Ya te sabe? I hope what I wrote made sense.
Always B-Lovin It,
!!GABE
Accountability is a major part of any team or organization. As the varsity team of service learning on siena's campus we need to uphold to certain standards which we will be responsible for keeping up with. As bonners we cant be forgetfull and not go to our sites becasue we are too tired or even better, just not show up to our site or a meeting. When you dont participate to something that you signed up for you are not only letting yourself down , but the rest of the team who relys on you and your commitment.
As far as enforcing accountability within bonners, we should create a list of expectations of eachother. For example...what bonners expect of other bonners, what gretchen expects of us, what we expect of gretchen, what we expect of our community partners, what our community partners expect of us. From here we can come up with a set of guidelines that we should be responsible for enforcing on eachother.
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