The Accountability Guy®
Creating SMART goals, planning them out, and prioritizing your tasks moves you 50% closer to achieving your goals. When you share your goals with someone, you are 95% closer to accomplishing your goals.
Essentially, you share your goals with someone who is experienced, can mentor you, and is supportive of your dreams, aspirations, and goals. You can find people from various spheres of your life to be your accountability coach, buddy, or partner. Alternatively, you can be part of an accountability group.
You might wonder what an accountability group is and how they can prove beneficial, isn’t it? Fret not; this blog will tell you everything you need to know about accountability groups.
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An accountability group is a group of 3-7 like-minded people. Such a group ensures that each person gets an equal opportunity to raise their concerns and receive advice. There are follow-ups and regular communications regarding goals, plans, and prioritizing processes.
An accountability group helps create peer-to-peer accountability and enables you to gain insights into other industries that you might find helpful. Accountability groups allow you to share goals and the process of achieving them openly and honestly.
Such groups let you learn more and help you analyze your failures to learn from them and succeed in your organization. So, creating an accountability group is quite crucial from a business point of view.
Now you know what accountability groups are, you might want to start your own group. Here are some tips to bear in mind when creating an accountability group:
Creating an accountability group is essential to ensure you are accountable and you do what you say you will do.
You might be wondering why you should create an accountability group when you can simply hire a private accountability coach. Explore the advantages of accountability groups below, and you’ll know why.
When you are part of an accountability group, you can access shared learning. You motivate each other to stay true to your journey. Plus, each member has access to support and assistance in achieving their goals and aspirations. Further, you have a group of trustworthy and insightful individuals who can hold you accountable and responsible for your work.
With an accountability group, you undoubtedly build your network. You get like-minded individuals together from various industries. Plus, you can broaden your horizons by getting people with different experiences together. Further, you create associations and have a close-knit group of people who can inspire you, praise you, and criticize you.
You can share your experiences and learn from your group member’s experiences. Experience sharing is one of the best ways to learn and grow in an organization or the business world. So, in an accountability group that helps in boosting connectivity and learning, you can share experiences and gain insights from others’ experiences, even if it’s in another industry.
In accountability groups, you can engage in debates and provide meaningful and specific feedback to others and receive it too. You can participate in honest, open and well-intended discussions that help you propel your business.
Accountability groups are forums or a platform that bring like-minded people together. Such a group has 3-7 people who want to achieve specific goals and do it by holding each other accountable. Each person brings unique knowledge and ideas for the other.
Accountability groups help you network, create associations, share your experiences, and gain invaluable knowledge from others’ experiences. Further, it lets you broaden your horizons and offers you feedback on your work.
Suppose you’re stuck while creating an accountability group. You can contact TickThoseBoxes. They will help you in your process of finding and creating an accountability group.
Darren Finkelstein is The Accountability Guy®. This involves being an International Accountability Coach, Business Advisor, Mentor, Author, and Speaker.
Darren works with high-performing teams and individuals across Australia/NZ, UK, USA, Latin America, Europe and Asia to help get results, achieve their wildest dreams, and smash goals. He does this by leveraging over 30 years of experience working in the corporate world and small businesses.
A successful business owner himself, Darren won the Australian Entrepreneur of the Year award for Dent Global after building a wonderful lifestyle business, successfully sold and exited after 15 years.
Before this, Darren worked for over 10 years at Apple Inc. as ‘Manager of Commercial Markets’ during the inspirational Steve Jobs era. While there, he was awarded the prestigious Golden Apple Award.
Darren’s lessons in accountability can help individuals and teams at all levels of a business or organisation across the globe, and are based on actions and results:
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