How to Apply the Right Choice Model

The Right Choice Model helps your team make the conscious choice to follow your team's RIGHT attitudes and behaviors. The model teaches accountable teammate attitudes and work behaviors. The model is printed on your computer and given to teammates. It is a tool for leaders and facilitators. It plays a critical role in Right-Minded Teamwork.

Hello, I am Dan Hogan and it is an honor to introduce you to Right-Minded Teamwork's Right Choice Model. This real-world teaching aid has improved teams worldwide.

What Is "Right" in Right-Minded Teamwork (RMT)? RMT has nothing to do with right-brain thinking or right-wing viewpoints. It has everything to do with what your team, together, decides is "right." Your team's choices, identified collectively, define your team's Right-Minded attitudes and work behaviors. The "right" way is the way you choose is right for your team.

The Right Choice Model consists of two parts. The first part is a graphic illustration that depicts an "upper loop" and "lower loop." The second part of the Model is an important, Right-Minded question you will use when difficult situations arise.

As you will see in the model, the upper loop describes Right-Minded accountability, and the lower loop defines wrong-minded victimization. The definition of Right-Minded accountability and the important, Right-Minded question, found on the back of the Right Choice cards, are the tools you use to move you and your teammates back into your Right Minds.

Right Choice promotes the concept that every person has free will. Free will means you are 100% responsible for how you respond to every situation, circumstance, and event that happens.

When difficult team situations occur, you either:

1. act as an ally, choosing to demonstrate accountable, responsible, and Right-Minded behaviors

2. choose to be adversarial, react to the difficult situation by becoming a victim or victimizer, and demonstrate wrong-minded behaviors

Wrong choices lead to victimization, blame, and punishment among teammates. They guarantee solutions are not found because teammates are too busy pointing fingers at others and defending themselves. Right-Minded Choices are the only sane response to challenging team situations. Why? Because teammates who demonstrate the Right actions and behaviors find real solutions to their problems.