{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Build Your Brave Career for Women in Tech","title":"E122: How to Work Less with the Accountability Triangle","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2034,"description":"Learn how to work less with the Accountability Triangle by getting clear, focusing on the outcome, setting boundaries, and stop doing other people's jobs    In this episode, I show you what accountability really is and how you can transform it to a super power for stressing and working less. You have most likely been taught a form of accountability that focuses on control and drives you towards burnout, especially if you have been socialized as a woman and now work as a woman in leadership, woman in tech, woman in stem, or more.For example:“Hold them accountable”“Make sure Bob is putting his numbers into the report correctly”“Your job is to get them to act”Sure these statements may sound innocent and simple – maybe even normal – but they really, really aren’t.In fact, these statements, and the mindset behind them, are destined to wear you out, slow down your career growth, limit your goal achievement, and cap your income.This form of accountability is actually not-so-hidden control:controlling otherscontrolling shared situationseven controlling the uncontrollableWhich is as far away from the true definition of accountability as you can get, almost the exact opposite. Webster’s Dictionary defines accountability as “an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions” (emphasis mine).True accountability is a habit that empowers you and is based on clarity, boundaries, communication, and excellence for YOU. Real accountability is a force that reduces that amount of stress you carry and the amount of extra effort you take on. Real accountability reduces conflicts, matures timelines and scopes, and focuses you on what you can actually control: YOU, your mindset, your actions, and your future.But if the definition is clear and the benefits are many, why (oh why?!) is accountability so misunderstood and misused?In other words, why are you so exhausted, overscheduled, and struggling?Well, the short answer is that if you take on too much...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZAPWxN_LMHdnz5w5SiJOoBH806j-O4J313kixLNknDk/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84MjBi/ZTIzMzQwMDdiNjVk/MDM2OGRhODk0NDBm/Mjk4MS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}