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Long-held corporate cultures can be tough to change. Instill an ownership mentality with a focus on accountability to increase your chances for success.
Today’s leaders are tasked with managing through difficult environments, constantly asked to “do more with less,” influence without authority, and manage a virtual team across the globe, all of whom report up through organizations with their own goals and agendas. The question is, where does accountability come in?
For organizations, the challenge is that accountability is intrinsic. People must actively choose to take ownership and be accountable.
Accountability can flourish in the right environment.
If you want answerable people, you need to create the conditions that encourage people to fully own their decisions.
And it starts by acknowledging and removing unnecessary fear within your organizational culture.
Fear can cause people to hide, hold back, and do just enough of what is expected to avoid accountability and leadership. Unaddressed, it can lead to aggressiveness, anger, micromanaging, defensiveness, lack of engagement, and victim behavior.
Reducing fear starts with trust. Learn how to earn it by being competent in the work, knowing when to communicate openly and when to keep things in confidence, and following through on what you say you will do.
To enhance accountability, your team should learn and share these strategies for understanding when to commit and when to get clarification.
Help your team step up ownership at your organization by equipping them with leadership accountability skills. Explore our world-class, research-backed leadership accountability training and our flexible content delivery options.
You can use our proven content to deliver a workshop or internal training on leadership accountability either online or in person, whichever you prefer:
Deliver targeted training to key leaders or small groups — leverage our content on leadership accountability to host a half-day leadership development workshop
Accelerate development across your entire organization with comprehensive access to this accountability training content and all our leadership topics and solutions
Or, we can incorporate it as part of a larger initiative for your organization:
Combine with other topic modules and interactive experiences into a customized learning journey for your leaders
Organizations who have partnered with us to upskill their people’s leadership accountability skills consistently tell us the same thing: their experience with CCL made a significant impact on their culture — and their bottom line.
But don’t just take our word for it — take theirs.
“I needed to let go of control and trust my leadership team to be more responsible and accountable. I felt I had to absorb all the responsibility. Rather than empowering my team, I was micromanaging them. They felt I didn’t trust them, and I felt like I needed to be in control of everything. After CCL, I realized this was something I could change so we could be more successful as a team.”
Joy Romero
VP, Advanced Aero-Solutions Division
Vought Aircraft Industries
Our experts are here to help. Let’s have a conversation about accountability training at your organization and how our leadership accountability training and content could help support your development initiatives.
Long-held corporate cultures can be tough to change. Instill an ownership mentality with a focus on accountability to increase your chances for success.
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Accountability training involves creating the conditions that encourage leaders to fully own their decisions. Accountable leaders choose to act with ownership over their behavior and their work.
Employees across the organization can benefit from accountability training. Though accountability is intrinsic, by understanding how to create the right environment, accountability can flourish and leaders can model accountable behaviors for their teams.
Accountable leaders build an ownership mentality and culture, boosting psychological safety in themselves and their organizations. Accountable leaders also learn how to communicate and delegate more effectively, which builds trust in their team members and their organizational cultures.
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