The Accountability Guy®
Accountability has been an excellent stepping stone for building a solid relationship at work, delivering high standards of performance and revenue, and improving responsible behaviour. The key to attaining accountability is starting with responsible behaviour at work, ensuring that you are answerable for your actions and decisions, and thinking proactively instead of reactively. We have learned how accountability encourages employee engagement, motivation, and commitment. And when we talk about results, we see a sharp and gradual shift towards success. We will start discussing the five tips for being accountable regularly. What is self-accountability, and why is it important?
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Self–accountability is being responsible, feeling empowered to take the right decisions and actions, acquiring proactive thinking instead of reactive, and building strong team relationships. It is more to deal with self-discipline and ensure that you know about your emotional reaction and how to control it as you face any conflict. So, you have strengthened and regulated your emotional equation and slowed down on the negative feelings that you might be feeling. If you hit rock bottom, you must stand up for your mistakes and not start blaming others. That’s where self-discipline comes into action. So you have to set great examples in front of other team members.
Accountability is necessary because it makes you self-aware, self-disciplined, and a proactive thinker.
When you and your team members earn each other’s respect, then you learn to build better relationships, and then you know to work with each other. Employees will be able to learn from each other, and they will learn to improve faster. The performances will begin to improve. Employees will be able to take criticism positively and learn to improve from their mistakes. Finally, let’s discuss how we can learn to hold ourselves accountable daily.
Once you become self-aware and self-disciplined, you learn to control your emotions better and channel them in the right direction. Accountable employees are more dedicated to work and towards their and teams’ performance. They learn to develop in their roles faster, giving better results to the organizations. They will regularly demonstrate and accept accountability and then understand the relational nature of success. It is a sustainable growth path or a road map for individuals, teams, and organizations. They learn to be adaptable to changes and remember to be more innovative toward meeting their targets. The group learns to collaborate and learn about each other strengths and weaknesses. They know to adopt good habits from each other. As a team, they will be more empowered to perform better. The team will learn to transform well, demonstrating that they have adapted the concept of accountability.
Finally, the employees and the teams are empowered to make decisions, stand up for their failures, and learn from them. Self-accountability can lead to all these improvements and can make individuals more responsible. But learn to take smaller steps to improve on a regular basis.
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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1. Take the Accountability Scorecard
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2. Read my book "The Accountability Advantage - Play Your Best Game"
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3. Book a complimentary Accountability Assessment
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