From the course: The Five Conversations That Deliver Accountability and Performance

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The accountability dial part four: Boundary

The accountability dial part four: Boundary

- Here, we're going to go, we're going to diverge a little bit into different types of conversations. So if I'm a more junior person relative to somebody that I work for, let's say, and I'm having an accountability conversation, I've used the mention, I brought up something that I think is problematic, that I'd like to see change, nothing happened. I went to the invitation stage, I said, "Hey, I think this is a pattern and it seems to be problematic to me", nothing happened. We had the conversation maybe in a one-on-one, and hopefully I work in a culture where I can talk with my manager in a more open way, I know that that's not always the case, but I have the conversation and we talk about the impact and I get an acknowledgement, right, from my and they say, "Yeah, you're right, I can see that is having an impact, I'll get better at that", let's say, that's sort of the generic response. Now, what do you do? So it's…

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