How to Build a Fully Accountable Team

If you just talk about accountability as a vague, aspirational trait, it is very difficult to effectively pursue it. In this webinar you will learn how to describe accountability in ways that help your team understand how to actually achieve it.

Often, managers hire less accountable people or even have trouble identifying exactly what the most accountable people on their team do to exhibit more accountability. You will understand how to screen for lack of accountability, both in your hiring process and in how you evaluate your team, using specific behaviors and actions that show up when it happens.

To create more accountability on our team we also have to identify behaviors that detract from it or create roadblocks for us as we work to create more of it. You will learn to clearly identify victim thinking and work to help your team members move away from it and toward accountable thinking.

What often happens is that managers focus on what they do to people after they are not accountable. This is not the best way to help people become more accountable in their next set of actions. What we really want is not to punish lack of accountability, but to develop consistent accountability on our team, and those two approaches require different sets of actions by a leader.

Accountability is the hallmark of a team when the leader does a few consistent, effective things that encourage and support it. You will learn what habits you can create that will immediately make a difference in how your team thinks and acts.