Reset Accountability

- Enable Performance & Achieve Results.

“Accountability is the glue that ties commitment to the results.”

- Bob Proctor

Of the 3 core leadership skills, the anchor of the TEAMALIGN process, is Reset Accountability. Getting this right creates a powerful Experience, shaping needed Opinions and Behaviors that directly impact Targeted Results. How do you deal with missed expecations, poor performance or non-performance?

Untangling this topic is crucial if leaders are to get accountability right. It’s not so much about externalizing - how to "hold others accountable" - it’s about fostering the conditions for people to take accountability.

Accountability REALLY matters!

Ironically, everyone would agree that accountability is vital to an organization, however studies say:

  • 84% of the workforce describes itself as “trying but failing”, or “avoiding” accountability, and 80% of people see accountability as punishing.1
  • 91% of respondents rank improving the ability to hold others accountable in an effective way as one of the top leadership development needs of their organization.2

TEAMALIGN‘s approach to accountability includes 6 Behavioral Standards.

Establish behavioral norms and their opposites for how individuals and teams work together, including:

  1. Accept Responsibility - Blaming Others

  2. Take Ownership - Making Excuses

  3. Actively Engage - Minimally Engaged

  4. Embrace Reality - Denying Reality

  5. Disclose Transparently - Spinning Information

  6. Show Initiative - Acting as a Victim

Reset Accountability is one of the three core Leadership Skillsets - and when coupled with with Invite Feedback and Engage Directs, each leader’s capacity can be elevated from being a good manager to an outstanding individual people leader that can align & mobilize a high performing team.

Leaders don’t just change their thought process - what they do is different as they establish the kind of accountability that engages people.

As a Stand-alone Training Approach

  • Consultation

  • Prework

  • Workshop

  • Implementation Plan

  • Coaching

  • Execution

(A conditional option.)

Our approach is flexible, and this process can be applied to individual leaders, team leadership, business unit, department, division or entire organization.