Character Development

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WHAT IS RESPONSIBILITY?

responsible adj.
1. Liable to be required to give account, as of one's actions or of the discharge of a duty or trust.
2. Involving personal accountability or ability to act without guidance or superior authority: a responsible position within the firm.
3. Able to make moral or rational decisions on one's own and therefore answerable for one's behavior.
4. Able to be trusted or depended upon; reliable.
5. Based on or characterized by good judgment or sound thinking: responsible journalism.
6. Required to render account; answerable: The cabinet is responsible to the parliament.

Therefore,
responsibility n.
1. The state, quality, or fact of being responsible.
2. Something for which one is responsible; a duty, obligation, or burden.

How does it concern student leaders?
- Being a student leaders means there is a need for you to be responsible for the actions and decisions that you make.
- Responsibility = not chickening out when trouble arises from what you did.
- You have to take the blame, even if you knowyou are going to be in trouble.

What happens when a student leader gets into trouble?
-Warnings
-Bookings
-Probations
-Dropping of rank
-Under observation
-Removal of badges

So, why should we take responsibility?
It’s a choice, you do it to show that you can be held accountable for whatever you did.
- E.g. Owning up to passing the wrong information or relaying the wrong message to your class or committee.

Given your position, influence and authority, your decisions could affect a big group of people. Therefore it is essential you accept the consequences for your actions.

Only by accepting responsibility will the people under you trust you enough for you to lead them again, and the people above you to feel confident enough to entrust a task to you.


~Character Development Team~