Why You Need Accountability

In Your Business

Being responsible for something…

Being Answerable for it too!

Accountability = Answerability

What Is Accountability?

Lifelong dreams can stay sat on the shelf

Fabulous ideas can never make it to fruition

Mundane, but ESSENTIAL tasks can getpushed to the bottom of the list

Talks like this can remain unwritten and undelivered!

Why Is Accountability Important?

1 Acceptance

2 Activity

3 Answerability

The 3 Elements of Accountability

TAMSEN GARRIE

Tam With A Plan

Senior Management job

Nice car

Flat in Chelsea

Disposable income

Planning Works!

Did always result in the outcomes I planned

Did NOT always result in the outcomes I wanted!

Whilst my planning…

Planned myself…

‘Successfully…’

…into beingmiserable!

HR Professional Psycho/Hypnotherapist & Coach Created and led dozens of teams Developed hundreds of leaders Run my own small business Developed the UK’s largest Business Network

Since then……

Thousands of small business owners:

Leader & Manager Coach & Mentor Consultant & Trainer Therapist

People who have accountability in their business achieve MORE and FASTER

I’ve worked with…

1 Acceptance

2 Activity

3 Answerability

Three Elements of Accountability

“What you resist, persists” (Carl Jung)

When you are unaware of (or in denial about!) how things actually are…

They remain the same

You have no reason to change them… and so you don’t

1 Acceptance

Only when we accept:

Who we are (warts and all!)

The way things are (no matter how tough!)

That we can’t do it all on our own (OMBDW!)

Can we let go of the pretence and change it

1 Acceptance

Awareness

Acknowledgement

Acceptance

1 Acceptance

Acceptance is where the internal accountability is because

There is no other decision to make, otherthan to change things.

1 Acceptance

1 Acceptance Do you plan for success? Do you follow through on your plans? Do the results in your business match your effort? Are you generating the leads/enquiries you want? Are you converting the sales you want? Are you moving your business forward

consistently?

2 Activity

Doing the right activity!

Two scenarios: 

1 The Busy Fool

2 The Procrastinator

2 Activity

The Busy Fool Lots and lots of activity – very busy! Ticking some activities off the ‘to do’ list, but not

always the right ones! Perfecting & developing (fussing) over the product,

but not getting out there and selling it!

Flat Out, but not gaining any traction!

2 Activity

The Procrastinator Big ideas, Big dreams, big vision Plans, To do lists, spreadsheets and projections Seminar/webinar/online training galore Displacement activities

2 Activity

To be effective:

Create a Vision (destination) Set Goals (milestones) Define Activities (mileage) Implement Accountability Measures

3 AnswerabilityYou know what it’s like…

You set your goals with enthusiasm & good intent The first couple of items get done The short-term pressure is relieved Somehow the non-urgent stuff doesn’t get done There’s no motivation!

3 Answerability

Even the most successful people need answerability!

In fact, successful people ARE successful because they have it!

3 Answerability

Two types of Answerability

Internal

External

3 Answerability

Internal – Self-Leadership

The commitment and the capacity to take responsibility for our own outcomes

The opposite of shifting responsibility onto other people and circumstances

3 Answerability

External – “what will make you do it?”

Coach Mentor Family Accountability group or partner

Accountability Measures

Hour by Hour Qualifier Question

Day by Day Daily Planner Week by Week Default Diary Month by Month Coach, Mentor,

Buddy or Group

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