10.05.2020 - By Chip Griffin and Gini Dietrich
We often get asked by agency owners and executives about how they can get their team members to improve their performance. They often frame it in terms of “being more accountable.”
The reality is that accountability is a two-way street. As a manager, you need to be accountable to your team members, too.
Listen in to learn how.
Transcript
Chip Griffin
Hello, and welcome to another episode of the Agency Leadership Podcast. I’m Chip Griffin.
Gini Dietrich
And I’m Gini Dietrich, and,
Chip Griffin
and we, at long last have this episode underway. Jenny has been having a bit of a tough time getting going this morning
Gini Dietrich
saying her name I can’t even say my name. I guess what? I got it up there. Geez. Yes.
Chip Griffin
For some reason you thought your name was incredibly funny. I don’t I don’t think your name is that funny. So
Gini Dietrich
it’s not that funny. I just, yeah, I’m having a time right now.
Chip Griffin
Well, it’s probably because we’re going to talk about accounting today, right?
Gini Dietrich
Oh, yeah. Let’s talk about accounting.
Chip Griffin
So I have my notes accounting, is that I have run out.
Gini Dietrich
That’s, I think you’re meant accountable or accountable.
Chip Griffin
Oh, so that’s different. That’s not the same. So see, I thought we’re talking about p&l.; And so I have my calculator all here. And my, my printing tape and you know, whatever. No. All right.
So accountability.
Chip Griffin
We are accountable to our listeners, or really weren’t Yeah, apparently. Yeah, we just
Gini Dietrich
kind of lost this. We’re not gonna have any listeners.
Chip Griffin
Well, the good news is we don’t have any to begin with. So going from zero to zero is actually maintaining the status quo. And we always tell people if in 2020, you hold your ground.
Gini Dietrich
At least five listeners. I know that I know of at least five,
Chip Griffin
at least five. All right, well, does that does that count me when I listened to 30 seconds of it, just to make sure that it recorded correctly are now
Oh, wow. So now we have six
Chip Griffin
now? Well, yes. I don’t listen to the thing all the way through. I really don’t want to listen again. Jenny,
Gini Dietrich
I know. I wouldn’t want to listen to me more than once either.
Chip Griffin
Now listening to myself. That’s a whole nother story. I love listening to myself, boy
in.
Chip Griffin
When I get bored,