why you need accountability in your business for business growth
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One of the best things bout running your own business is that you're not answerable to anyone. And yet that is also one of the greatest weaknesses. This presentation explains why accountability is so crucial in business, details the three elements of accountability and reveals the four accountability measures that you must implement in your business if you are going to grow.TRANSCRIPT
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
Your FREE Accountability Tool!Put your name and email address on the form that’s coming round now…
And we will send you our day-by-day accountability measure The Daily Accountability Tool by email.
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