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My Experience with a Self-Responsibility Team

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Team, teamwork, united team, empowered team and many other similar words are familiar names that you might have heard before; if not most of them, at least the majority of them.  Right?

I have one more to add! I don’t mean to add more to your basket of team names, but somehow I’m yearning to talk about it here in my blog after experiencing it about a month ago when we held the Coaching Camp for our coaches in October.

The Coaching Camp was a huge success (despite a lower turnout, no thanks to the depressed economy) because of MACC’s Exco’s  exemplary efforts. You see, taking up any post in a non-profit association like MACC (ie Malaysian Association of Certified Coaches) is voluntary; there’s no money to be made or fame to look for.  The only food for the soul is dedication to the Coaching Cause!

This I can say for all the Exco members.  Everyone has more than a full time job, and yet is willing to work for the coaching community!  They have to squeeze tasks assigned to them in their jam-packed schedule, often working late into the night!  Although the lines of responsibilities were drawn for everyone, no one from the President, Abdul Rahman; Secretary Jessica; Assistant Secretary Mun Yi; Camp Director, Chee Lian; and  all the others, drew a line of ‘what is mine, not mine, and yours’. This made things worked really well.  Everyone covered for someone in a tremendous demonstration of co-operation, unity and camaraderie.

And that is the secret of self-responsibility teams – it is really self-directedness. It means everyone not only look after their own areas of work but they also look at the bigger scheme of things.  When someone in the team notices something needs attending to, they instantly jump in to help out even not it is not their area of responsibility.  They don’t feel that it is not their business.  In such a spirit, no one calculates, or takes advantage, nor feel slighted because someone is ‘interfering’ in their area.  Everyone is a leader in their own right.  What drives self-responsibility team is simply goodwill, respect and appreciation that keeps everyone together for a common cause.

In the case of MACC, it was to ensure that the Coaching Camp was a success (and sure enough it was)!

As the Chairman of MACC, I wish to thank all the Exco members with my whole heart for displaying the ‘coach material’ of what good coaches are made up of.

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