Holding Your Team Accountable

Learn how to foster an environment where team members feel accountable to themselves, their teammates, and their leader.

Introduction

• High-performing teams are accountable

1. Prepare Your Team for Success

• What's your team's "why"?
• Connection to the team
• Ownership of team deliverables
• Trusting each other

2. Setting Expectations for Your Team

• Communicating clear expectations
• Delegating team tasks
• Doing as you say
• Tracking team performance

3. Enforcing Team Expectations

• Rewarding strong performance
• Allowing consequences for underperformance
• Avoiding the use of fear as a motivator
• Engaging difficult teammates
• Coaching underperformance

4. Team Accountability in Various Work Configurations

• Accountability in virtual teams
• Accountability in cross-functional teams
• Accountability in colocated teams

Conclusion

• Accountable leadership