How To Build Accountability Into Your Organization

Many of the top-performing organizations we work with every day - have expressed a real need to build accountability into their organization.

Take a quick minute – and consider the following key questions:

• Does each of your team members understand exactly what they are responsible for?
• Does your leadership team set consistent expectations for accountability?
• Do your new team members know exactly what’s expected of them – Day 1?
• Are all of your team members self-managing?
• Do you have a standardized way of monitoring progress? Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly
• Does your hiring process focus on attracting individuals who can be self-managing?

BOTTOMLINE: Here are some steps to consider when considering organization-wide accountability:

• Understand your company's core competencies
• Validate your team members
• Create a culture that grows and develops its people
• Identify the systems and processes that are now in place throughout your company and rely on your team members to make the systems and processes more efficient and more effective
• Get the right people in the right place
• Get all team members to understand that what they do affects everyone else in the company
• Build a strong second-tier management team that can take the company to the next level
• Hold everyone, including yourself, accountable
• Raise the bar by bringing in top talent