Taking ownership and positioning yourself as a leader helps you to win trust with accountability. Ownership doesn't mean that you need to execute things alone; it is more about taking new initiatives and holding on to them as it is your organization. You can have ideas that can benefit your organization in terms of productivity, agility, cost-saving, and increasing the customer base. Sometimes, you may not have the time or resources to execute your idea, but you should always try to bring it forward as a new initiative, and engage others for execution.

Accountability is about taking responsibility to drive the outcome. Ownership and accountability go hand in hand, where you are not only creating initiative but working on getting the result. People can trust you to execute any job and drive results. Accountability helps you to build trust with your customers and team, which ultimately results in a better work environment and achieving a goal.

As a solution architect, when you take ownership it helps you to see things from the customer's and sponsor's perspective. You feel motivated and a part of something meaningful that you enjoy doing. Make sure to define and create key successes and the objective key result. The goal/objective should be measurable using specific key results, and they must be time-bound. Let's learn more about Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).