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 AccountabilityTRANSCRIPT
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
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