The Accountability Guy®
Accountability in the workplace is crucial for the smooth functioning of the company. It prevents blame games and ensures people know what is expected from them. Accountability in the workplace is the willingness to accept the consequences and rewards for results.
Are you stuck regarding what accountability is in the workplace? Fret not; this blog will help you understand what accountability in the workplace is. Plus, you’ll know what wonders accountability in the workplace can do for your team and company.
So, read on to know everything about accountability in the workplace and include it in your work culture to boost performance.
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Accountability means an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility for your and your team’s actions. It is the willingness to accept the consequences and rewards for your results. If you are accountable, it means you are answerable, and your team and your supervisor can question you and expect relevant answers.
Accountability is result-oriented and is assigned to a single person. This person is often the leader or the project manager who needs to brief their team and are responsible for their and their team’s results.
It might help you to understand accountability in the workplace with a few examples:
Now that you know what accountability at the workplace is, you might wonder why it is important. Here are the reasons why accountability in the workplace is important:
Accountability in the workplace accelerates performance. When your team knows that you are accountable and you’ll guide them properly, they will work twice as hard and communicate with you.
Also, if you are accountable, you automatically become responsible and ensure you perform your tasks to the best of your ability.
Accountability helps create consistency in the workplace. It helps eliminates distractions and ensures you know what to do and when. This helps create a consistent performance that is going upwards. Plus, creating consistency will help maintain consistent performance because you’ll be responsible for your actions and results.
Accountability in the workplace boosts the company’s success by multifold. You must try to foster an accountable environment in your workplace by doing the following:
As a leader or manager in the company, you can foster accountability by setting clear goals and expectations. You must communicate what you expect from your team and give guidelines to achieve the goals successfully.
This communication makes things crystal-clear and helps your team know what they are responsible for.
Your team will find it easy to feel accountable for their actions, responsibilities, and results when they get consistent and regular feedback. You must give constructive, actionable feedback that makes sense. Your feedback should make your team feel accountable, and they should be able to work on it to give you measurable results.
As a leader, you need to take ownership of your results and your team’s results. You must also make your team understand the results and guide them to take ownership of the same. This will foster accountability in the organization.
Taking ownership of results shows a willingness to accept the consequences
Accountability in the workplace fosters trustworthiness, willingness to accept responsibility and boosts performance. As an organization, suppose you are stuck regarding how to promote accountability in the workplace. You can consult an accountability coach like Tick Those Boxes.
The accountability coach sits with you for 40-60 minutes to understand your goals, expectations, and commitments. They will then examine your priorities and help you plan your to-do list, and show you how to implement them. Accountability coaches will help you create plans and set a timeline to hold you and your team accountable.
So, hire an amazing accountability coach and know what accountability is to foster it in your company.
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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