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Concept Five:
For each responsibility
assigned to the service structure, a single point of decision
and accountability should be clearly defined.
Each action we
perform should have a clear point of accountability. For the
committee as a whole, that point is the chair who reports to his
or her respective Area Service Committee, Regional Service
Committee, or World Services.
For specific
projects, the usual type of work we do in PI service, a single
coordinator, project leader, or ad hoc chair should be selected.
This person should be held accountable for the responsibilities
assigned to him or her. These responsibilities and our other
expectations of that person should be clearly defined; some
committees include them in their guidelines or procedural
manuals.
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The spiritual principles important to the
Fifth concept are integrity, respect, and trust. This concept’s
insistence upon accountability fosters all three principles. In
essence, the committee tells the individual who has been
selected as the single point of accountability for a task that
it trusts him or her and that, through this trust, it is showing
that it respects that person’s personal integrity.
Trust, as has been pointed out earlier, must
be earned. The committee, in selecting this person as the single
point of accountability, is saying that his or her past
actions—both on behalf of service to the NA Fellowship, as well
as in his or her personal life—have convinced them to trust that
individual with the responsibility of carrying out the
particular task assigned. They respect the individual’s personal
integrity, and trust him or her to accomplish the task with
excellence, and within the time frame allotted for it.
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