How do we implement accountability strategies that are actually empowering and effective?

In our efforts to lead a group of people toward a shared mission or vision, we must find ways to overcome our negative experiences with accountability and learn to hold ourselves, each other and our organizations accountable in collaborative, grace-filled and practical ways. 

Summary:

• Reactions to the idea of accountability from our experiences and our first formation
• Accountability and performance appraisals and feedback
• Using meetings to hold ourselves accountable
• Accountability for ourselves and to each other--accountability structures in The Leader’s Journey
• 200% accountability -- Accountability in a collaborative context 
• Distinguishing accountability from blame
• Practices for accountability in complexity--being accountable for being accountable

Resources:

 

• 2FW Workbook
• Renovare
• Resources for effective feedback: Radical Candor & Crucial Accountability 
• Our past podcast on feedback: Giving & Receiving Feedback
• Resources for the structure to support accountability: Traction & 4 Disciplines of Execution
• The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
• The One Thing by Keller and Papasan, especially Fig. 24 and Fig. 32