Thank you for your posts and comments on how to hold employees accountable! Here is our final (6th) tip on employee accountability during your busy season…
6. I EMPOWER TEAM MEMBERS WHEN THEY DON’T FOLLOW THROUGH ON THEIR WORD.
- Powerful and effective leaders are coaches at heart.
- Our job as leaders is to maintain clarity and remain impartial in our beliefs and judgments regarding successes and failures. My team’s game is win or lose. My game as a leader is to develop the people I lead into being high performers. I can’t afford to get stuck in the ups and downs. I’m putting my team in a classroom every time they don’t win.
- Before I communicate with them, I remind myself, “I’m committed to coaching and empowering this person.” Which is vastly different than the typical approach of “I’m committed to making this person wrong.”
- As a coach, I am committed to not being disappointed when my team doesn’t achieve their results. Instead, I’m committed to them, growing and developing from the game that they’re playing.
- Once I get MY mindset right, I am ready to have an accountability conversation with them.
Question for you: How would taking on the mindset of, “I’m committed to coaching and empowering this person,” make a difference in one accountability conversation that you’ve been (currently) avoiding or putting off?
