Improving your team's accountability isn't a real outcome, and it's not something you can force anyone to do. What you really want, is for your team to achieve the outcomes you think your organization needs to thrive.

Our entire concept of accountability starts at the breakdown. One of your team members didn't deliver the outcome you needed, so it's time to put your leadership pants on and "hold them accountable."

Where were your leadership pants before the breakdown? We have the concept of accountability backward. It starts with the leader. Leaders are there to set their team members up to be accountable for the commitments they make. If your team members are regularly voluntold what and how to do things, leadership is the problem... It's you!

You can't help someone stay accountable to a commitment they didn't make. Period ...

If you are still reading, it's because your team members aren't delivering the outcomes you think you need. You have two choices. Continue doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result, or...

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