how to power your business results with accountability measures

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One of the best things about running your own business is that you're not answerable to anyone and yet that's also one of your greatest weaknesses/ The Three A's of Accountability

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How To Power Your Business Results with

Accountability Measures

Being responsible forsomething…

Being Answerable for it too!

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

I’ve worked with…

People who have accountability in their business achieve MORE and FASTER

1 Acceptance

2 Activity

3 Answerability

Three Elements of Accountability

ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 1Acceptance

“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… 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 start to change things!

1 Acceptance

Awareness

Acknowledgement

Acceptance

1 Acceptance

1 AcceptanceAsk yourself these questions…

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?

ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 2Activity

2 ActivityDoing the right activity!Two scenarios:

1 Stuck

2 Wheel Spinning

2 Activity

Do the right activity:

Create a Vision (destination) Set Goals (milestones) Define Activities (mileage) Implement Accountability Measures

ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 3Answerability

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 you lose motivation and momentum

There’s no one to answer to!

3 Answerability

Even the most successful people need answerability!In fact, successful people ARE successfulBECAUSE they have it!

3 Answerability

Two types of Answerability

Internal

External

3 AnswerabilityInternal – 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 AnswerabilityExternal – “what will make me 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… and we will send you our day-by-day accountability measureThe Daily Accountability Tool by email.

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