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In our previous blogs, we discussed tips to improve employee accountability and build an accountable workplace culture. But what about the critical question that helps us lead to better employee accountability? So, now let us understand and look at the possible questions. For example, when we talk about employee accountability, we are talking about better employee engagement and commitment towards his job roles, performance, and results, developing proactive nature to provide problem-solving skills and solutions, and accepting feedback and change for betterment. But what if the employee we work with needs to be improved or adaptive enough to our goals and are not ready to change? Or let’s say the employees are struggling to change towards accountability.
Of course, every employee wants to change and develop in their roles, but if they are stuck and unable to achieve the goals that we might have planned for them? How can we help them? What can we provide as an organization for them to improve? How can we make sure that they do not get stuck and struggle? Before we answer this question, let us look at the various reasons why any employee would get stuck.
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When an employee targets an expectation of a new goal or improvement change, he might start avoiding or completing that job in the most unproductive way—leading the organization with more damage than being fruitful because the employee is in haste to complete that task but might not understand the importance or understand it completely how it can achieve it productively. Once this situation occurs, the employee’s thinking capability goes reactive toward a fight-flight response. These fight-flight responses are nothing but the fear of change in their minds, where he loses any rational way of achieving the goal but begins to avoid or ignore or even fight out of it.
The first fight- Flight response is where the employee understands the importance of the goal provided, but then he starts to perform other tasks that can provide assured success. He will try to delay it as much as possible. For example, if an organization gives time to an employee to improve one aspect of his performance, he is neglecting it.
The second fight- flight response is where the employee learns to reject the change. He is well aware that there is an expectation for him to change certain aspects of his performance, but he fights not to change. That way, it becomes difficult for the managers to understand how they can improve if they don’t accept the change.
The third fight- flight response is ignorance or de-prioritizing when the employee doesn’t understand the importance of the change. He then tends to ignore or forget about the change. He will then de-prioritize the tasks with other tasks to ensure he can avoid them for as long as possible.
So, how do we change this fear of change into acceptance to change? So, let us discuss the question now!
So, one powerful question to improve employee accountability for us is how to change the fear of change into confidence and acceptance. And the answer is a simple focus on smaller targets, and if the difference is too big, then break it into smaller parts and focus on them one by one. Finally, keep the employees from feeling overwhelmed about any target. Sit and understand their fears and concerns, and help them tackle them positively. Finally, refrain from letting them begin to think negatively, and preach to them the positive aspects of achieving the goals one after another. This way, they will learn to be more engaged in their job roles and targets, develop proactive thinking, and be receptive to feedback and change. Finally, they will not feel stuck in any situation and will be confident to handle it and have an open conversation with the manager.
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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