How to Increase Accountability in My Team
Channel: Enhance.training
Date: 2021-05-06

How to increase accountability in my team is a question that I have been asked many times by clients, team members and colleagues. 

In this video, I explain why many managers find holding team members to account difficult and go through what you should do to make increasing accountability in your team much easier. 

The benefits you get of increasing accountability in your team in terms of team performance and team morale far outweigh the work to increase accountability. Increasing accountability makes managing teams a lot easier and is an essential step in creating high performing teams. 

How to increase accountability in a team is one of the essential skills of leadership and team management. I take you through my experiences and what has worked for me in many businesses include business turnaround and high growth business were team accountability is vital. 

“How to Increase Accountability in My Team” has 7 key actions for you to take for creating and increasing accountability. Each will help you create the foundations to improve employee engagement, the team culture and team performance. 

Setting expectations clearly and then following-up regularly are probably the two actions that are practiced the least by new and junior managers, yet both are vital to creating an accountability culture within your team. 

I have had to take a team with very low team morale, with low accountability, in a failing business and turn around their performance and morale to deliver results to ensure the company did not fail. I used exactly the steps I go through in this video to achieve a dramatic team and business turnaround. 

Use the tips and examples within this video to improve your management skills and leadership skills and enjoy managing and leading your team! 


00:00 Intro
02:17 Why Accountability is so Critical
03:01 The Impact on Team Morale
04:25 Setting Expectations, Milestones and Goals
06:03 Lead from the Front
06:57 Measure Progress
08:38 Create Visibility
09:48 Give Feedback
10:57 Always Follow-up
13:39 Further Reading
14:12 In Summary


Other videos you will find useful:
How to Develop Your Best Team Members  https://youtu.be/t6cNZKSSJwI
5 Steps to Manage Difficult Employees         https://youtu.be/aMfHNNkqj9o
8 Ways to Manage Teams Through Change https://youtu.be/sEUH0lo434s
How to Hire a Successful Team – 7 Tips        https://youtu.be/Dsw9DlVGyTQ

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them in the comments section. I will respond to each one as quickly as possible.