Accountability

Accountability is an outcome, a by-product of great leadership and management. Tough management (hard on the person) does NOT equal accountability.

ACCOUNTABILITY = Leadership + Management

Accountability

Accountability is a by-product of doing leadership and management well. It results when Leadership provides clarity (your checklist):

1. Vision.
2. Priorities.
3. Expectations.

It combines with Active Management (your checklist):

1. Putting processes in place.
2. Ensuring everyone’s roles are clearly defined.
3. Setting standards with a discipline to execute (Feedback Loops) is in place.

Leadership

The act of being a good leader (your checklist):

1. Providing a compelling vision.

• Vision is where you are going.
• Compelling Vision is an exciting place that seems just outside the grasp of getting there yet intriguing enough to work hard to get there.

2. Providing clear direction.

• Setting priorities
• Clarifying Expectations in advance.

Management

Actions of good management are the accumulated day-to-day actions of (daily checklist):

1. Communicating.
2. Setting clear expectations.
3. Execution (measured with Feedback Loops against standards of performance).

Onward and Upward,

 

Steve Lounsberry

President