The document discusses the concept of responsibility from various perspectives in 3 main sections: 1. It defines responsibility and the different types including social, work, and personal responsibility. It emphasizes taking responsibility for one's actions and being accountable. 2. It provides tips on how to enhance responsibility such as considering stakeholders, commitments, and feedback. It discusses traits of responsible behavior. 3. It discusses pursuing excellence through diligence and improvement. It provides questions to self-reflect on one's level of responsibility and tips for being responsible through various stages of life from youth to employee.

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2. Index
• Responsibility • Tips
• Types of Responsibility • Introspect yourself
• Social Responsibility • Enhance responsibility
• Work Responsibility • Responsibility - Do & Don’
• Personal Responsibility • False responsibility
• Community Service Project • Be responsible
• Pursue Excellence • Personal Responsibility
• Are you responsible? • As a youth
• Personality • Employee being owner
• Behavior traits • Steps – Be responsible
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3. Gems of Wisdom
The price of greatness is responsibility
-Sir Winston Churchill
Good men prefer to be responsible
-Michael Edwardes
You can’t escape responsibility of tomorrow by
evading it today -Abraham Lincoln
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4. Wolf & Crane
1. Did crane consider the consequences of
actions?
2. Have you ever done something, then realized
afterwards that you were fortunate to be
unharmed by the consequences?
3. When you act without thinking about the
consequences, do you usually accept the
consequences willingly?
4. Is it good to understand actions and
consequences at a young age?
5. Do decisions & actions have consequences?
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5. Responsibility Words
• Accountable
• Dependable
• Reliable
• Honest
• Trustworthy
• Transparent
• Excellence
• Prepared
• Informed
• Acceptance
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6. Question
What is responsibility? What does it mean?
• Towards duty, obligation, liability or burden.
• The state, quality, or fact of being responsible
• I am reliable and dependable
• I am accountable for my actions
• I do what is committed & to be done
• I am accountable & owner of my actions
• I don’t make excuses or blame others
• I fulfill my moral obligations & liabilities
• I make right judgment, deeply thinking the
consequences of my actions
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7. Definition
• Feeling accountable for your actions
• Being responsible for the conduct, moral &
ethical actions & reactions
• The quality of being dependable or reliable
• The trait of deserving trust and confidence
• A duty or obligation to satisfactorily perform or
complete a task that one must fulfill.
• Job - the responsibility to do assigned task
• Moral - considerations of right & wrong
• Civic - the responsibilities of a citizen
• Filial duty - duty of a child to its parents
• Legal duty - acts which law requires be done
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8. Gems of Wisdom
You as an individual are the predominant
creative force in your life
Assuming responsibility allows you to be the
most effective, powerful & creative
Accepting responsibility for
choices, thoughts, behavior & actions make the
soul powerful.
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9. Types of Responsibility:
• Social
• Work
• Personal
• Social = Who am I as a citizen?
• Work = Who am I as a learner? & worker?
• Personal = Who am I as a person?
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10. Social Responsibility
• It’s the quality of our citizenship
• It’s how we treat each other
• It’s the same as respect for others
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11. Work Responsibility
At school
• To do the best to learn
• To complete home work & assignments
At work
• To complete assignments in time at better
quality than expected
• To behave rationally with colleagues
At home
• To run the routine smoothly
• To support family members for their needs
• To love, share & care
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12. Personal Responsibility
• It is the way we behave & deliver naturally
• It is making good choices & doing right thing
without being told, noticed, or rewarded or
even when no one is watching
• Known to be dependable, committed & making
right/good choices
• With privilege, comes the responsibility
• And vice a versa!
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13. Community Service Project
• Have you ever thought to serve society free or
nominal or affordable cost so that either person
or section of the community would be benefited
with your experience & knowledge
• Participate global projects associating with
NGO like controlling global warming, save
environment,
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14. Gems of Wisdom
The willingness & determination to take
responsibility is the source of self-respect
If you take responsibility for yourself, you will
develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams
I am accountable & responsible for what
happens in my life & eventual outcome. I am
the master of fate & captain of my soul
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15. Pursue Excellence
By exhibiting diligence, perseverance & striving
for continuous improvements
A person pursuing excellence
• Does the best at all times, being
careful, prepared and informed
• Finishes what he/she starts and doesn’t give
up easily
• Takes the responsibility of looking for ways to
improve the assignment & delivery
• Doesn’t surrender to obstacles or
excuses, instead overcoming them
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16. Gems of Wisdom
Learning is facilitated when the student
participates responsibly in learning process
Freedom is NOT freedom from responsibility
People need to take responsibility. They cannot
get along WITHOUT it
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17. Are you responsible?
Myself
World Family
Am I?
Country Work
Religion Social
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18. Personality
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19. Are you responsible?
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20. Are you responsible?
• You need to answer honestly – are you
dependable / reliable?
 Energy/ Commitments?
 Energising abilities / Words/ Behavior?
 Execution / Actions?
 Edge / Management / Knowledge?
 Etiquettes / Organised / Planned way
 Ethics / Trustworthiness
• Do people call you Mr. Dependable?
• Have you handled small to big assignments
well & delivered better than expected?
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21. Behavior traits
• To seek/accept help for yourself if required
• To be open to new ideas or concepts about life
• To disagree to irrational believes openly
• To overcome fear, to be assertive & positive
• To be determinant of the choices you make
• Be choosy about responses to the
people, words, actions, decisions & events in
your life
• Let go anger, fear, blame, mistrust & insecurity
• To be flexible to change for good and grow
• To be as you are,
• To be disciplined, reorganize priorities & goals
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22. Tips
• To consider all stake holders
• To consider your own reliability for all “6Es”
• Be careful while committing, say “No” polietly if
you can not make it
• To keep track of your commitment or promise
• To follow up on commitments
• To update proactively, good or bad situation
• To be consistent, build & maintain creditability
• To be alert building & maintaining your image
• To communicate effectively
• Under promise & over deliver
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23. Introspect yourself
• Have you done blunders which you really
regret? Take some time & list 3 top blunders
• What was the event?
• What were your emotions?
• What made you to react so sharply?
• Would have you done something different?
• Was there any alternative possible post-event?
• Would you behave the same in similar
situation?
• What was the cost of your action?
• What was a lesson learnt?
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24. Enhance responsibility
• To know & to learn-unlearn few skills
• To gain knowledge, to be expert
• To understand benefits of "to be responsible"
• To demonstrate the skill on every opportunity
• To be highly motivated & energise members
• To take initiative & actively participate
• To celebrate closures, success or failure
• To receive feedback from all stake
holders, introspect & improve
• To align Thoughts -> Words -> Actions ->
Behavior -> Habits -> Values -> Destiny
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25. Responsibility - Do & Don’t
•Take responsibility •Refuse assignment
•Deliver as committed •Make excuses or
•Know & do your duty blame others
•Meet legal obligations •Miss any delivery
•Make things better •Be a back bencher
•Be expert •Compromise on quality
•Check impact of •Quit
decisions •Act out of
•Do your best anger, revenge or fear
•Be diligent, Work hard •Depend on others
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26. Responsibility - Personality
• Take charge, set example • Be confused
• Be trustworthy & • Be jealous or egoistic
transparent • Be frustrated
• Be positive & self- • Cheat
disciplined. Be rational • Follow corrupt practice
• Make things better • Try for short cut
• Think long-term • Compromise at less
• Judge right & wrong • Ignore health & emotions
• Know yourself deeply • Get cheated or Loose
• Dream high & big money
• Introspect & improve • Ignore
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27. False responsibility
You take charge of assignment which is not
purview of your domain or role
• Non clarity of responsibility
• It suits to few stake holders
• Over enthusiasm/ initiative
• Ambition for growth
Remedy
• Have clear compartments
• Effective communication sharing clarity
• Assertiveness
• To adopt the change
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28. False responsibility
• Taking responsibility of other people
• Over-care & over-push
One must avoid taking false responsibility
False responsibility results into ignorance, casual
attitude, overwork, stress & burnout, depriving
employees from power, recognition & motivation
• Consent needed to be responsible for failure
• If not responsible, care but do not control
• To delegate effectively & guide
• Should never sound like shifting responsibility
• To get team aligned, communicate clearly
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29. Gems of Wisdom
Power belongs to people who take
responsibility
Take responsibility. Be the chess player, not
the chess piece.
Person not taking responsibility is simply in
the grip of outside circumstances.
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30. Be responsible
People under stress or emotionally upset or
anxiety, cannot remember, attend, learn, make
right judgment or take correct decision
• To deliver responsibility effectively
• Be stable, stress free or keep it to min. level
• Be a good team member, behave as a leader
• Be expert in the filed
• To execute as planned & agreed
• To maintain the motivation
• To be organized
• To be ethical
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31. Gems of Wisdom
More actively students taking personal
responsibility for their learning, the greater are
the learning results
Teachers who care accept no excuses.
We are responsible for
thoughts, deeds, choices, decisions, words
spoken. & to accept consequences of those
throughout our lifetime.
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32. Personal Responsibility
Responsibility of parents
• Laying the foundation
• Before a child is 5 years old, Teach following:
• To be honest, simple & to tell the truth
• To be clever - to avoid mistakes & misdeeds
• To be determined - to decide goals & to achieve
• To be smart - to choose right
• To identify and accept challenges
• Team player - to make friends & get along
• Love - Be generous with affection for your child
May be you are strict at head but be soft at heart!
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33. Gems of Wisdom
More I take responsible for my life, the more in
control I am of the goals to be achieved
Personal responsibility is the brick and mortar
of power.
Accepting responsibility changes the question
Who’s to blame? To What needs to be done?
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34. As a youth
• As the youth matures, absorbs information,
observation & analysis goes high, understands
complex concepts and opportunities.
• To encourage to build values and skills.
• To identify the gift, passion, Justice & purpose
• To provide opportunities to experience
• Be positive.
• To be compassionate - To be aware,
understand & respect feelings of others
• To develop abilities in art, science, games,
athletics, music, humanities, etc
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35. Employee being owner
• Meritocracy based - To promote performance &
productivity
• More critical assignments are awarded
• More & early learning, good experience
• Steeper growth & recognition at work
• Better rewarded - To enlighten self interest
• Well respected, more involved & followed
• Motivated team
• Better, organised quality life
• Consistent support by corporate leadership
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36. Gems of Wisdom
Responsibility is important to act in a way that
does not deprive others to deliver their duty
More we become responsible, more effective &
successful we become as managers
It is not what happens, it is how we react. We
are 100% responsible for all experiences
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37. Steps – Be responsible
Make a List Know interest Locations
Duties Social School
Obligation Work Work
Liability Personal Home
Know You Towards Be
Self Excellence
Energy
Family Committed
Energising
Work Honest
Edge
Social Trustworthy
Execution
Religion Communicate
Etiquettes
Country effectively
Ethics
World Consistent
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38. Gems of Wisdom
Acknowledgement is the first step towards
improvement
More I take responsible for my life, the more
in control I am of the goals to be achieved
Be responsible! All the best!!
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39. Thank You
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