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A quiz to help you determine what is your inner accountability Care Bear. Check your #MHAWS newsletter for more information about dealing with each accountability style!

#MHAWS What's Your Inner (Accountability) Care Bear?

You have a deadline for a conference and your paper is only 75% done. You have a week to finish it. Do you feel: 

How do you feel about coauthored work? 

A conference discussant says that they must have papers 3 weeks prior to the panel (norm is 1 week). What is your response? 

How do you feel about producing solo-authored work? 

A coauthor said they'd a paper to you by Tuesday. It is now Friday, no paper & you were going to work on it. Do you: 

You set a goal of finishing a lit review for a solo-authored paper by April 1st. It is now April 10th & you haven’t finished it. What’s your reaction? 

You tell a colleague you will send them a paper intro to look at by 5pm on Friday. It is 5pm & you haven't even started. How do you react? 

Your annual review is due in 3 weeks and you have nothing currently under review. Do you: 

Which of the following most resonates with you as good advice to get ish done? 

What is hardest part of reaching a goal that is both amorphous & has a long time horizon (like tenure or a dissertation)?

The Cheer Bear likes to win – like, a lot. Winning = meeting goals. Losing = not meeting goals, other people disappointing you, you causing the ‘team’ (i.e., your coauthors) to lose. Accountability revolves around setting clear, concise goals for yourself and then ticking those boxes every day! Hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, semester, yearly, five year, 10 year, and career goals are all very appealing for you. Cheer Bear’s Care Meter is usually full.

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Cheer Bear

Grumpy Bear hates people and wants to be left the F alone. They don’t like goals. They don’t want any of this SMART goals nonsense. Shhh. Give Grumpy a quiet office and let them work at their own pace on whatever they want! Leave them alone! Grumpy Bear’s Care Meter rarely has anything in it.

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Grumpy Bear

The Love-a-lot Bear loves people and that is their secret weapon! Working with other people is where Love-a-lot succeeds. This Bear is good at setting and meeting goals as long as there is a social component to them. You are way better at producing work when coauthoring and around other people. Being around other people fills up the Love-a-lot Bear's Cheer Meter.

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Love-a-lot Bear

The Funshine Bear is pretty freaking good at getting their work done. Funshine likes working with other people AND by themselves. Deadlines are important to you. The Funshine Bear can be overconfident & get stressed because they often overpromise. They also expect the best of other people and so can get dragged down by coauthors who don’t do what they say. The Funshine’s Cheer Meter is usually full.

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Funshine Bear

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