Create Better Accountability for Yourself—Now!
While it’s sometimes more doable to hold our teams and direct reports accountable, we can sometimes overlook the importance of doing the same for ourselves.
Patience: The Powerful Trait All Accountability Leaders Have
When leaders struggle with company performance, they often want a quick fix. And who can blame them? After all, when it comes to the bottom line, time is of the essence.
Focus on Positive Accountability
This approach will cultivate employee satisfaction, grow morale, and nurture a healthy work culture.
Foster Accountability in Meetings
You have the power to help control the outcome. Adopt this discipline, and you’ll reap the rewards of greater goal ownership and achievement.
Set Achievable Goals
A good rule of thumb is to be 80% confident that the goal can be accomplished. If you’re not that confident in its potential success rate, then that goal is…
Hold Yourself Accountable
If you want to improve your health, learn a new skill, or go after a new career opportunity, you can better your odds of success by taking a disciplined approach to making these dreams a reality.
Implement “Flash Reporting”
A method for communicating real-time results relative to established goals.
Check in, Check up on Goals
Setting good goals is great. But this whole discipline is a wasted effort if you lack a system for consistently monitoring performance…
Manage Performance — More!
Good companies spend more time managing performance and less time tackling the “trivial” many.
Develop a “What’s the Goal?” Mindset
Whenever you’re assigned a new responsibility, task or endeavor, the three most important words you can ask yourself are: “What’s the goal?”