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MARCH 17, 2025

NOTE: We find there’s some tongue-in-cheek catharsis in using the word “couth” during the forming stages of the team agreement, but you’ll want to rename it before you begin your widespread communication plan. Think about communication, responsiveness, meeting etiquette, and accountability. We can help.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Hold Others Accountable: Practice peer-to-peer check-ins and closure Habit: When people don’t follow through, I follow up with them. Look at the research about high-performing teams and one universal characteristic jumps out. Related Article: Great Teams Hold One Another Accountable (You Can Too). They work at it.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 14, 2024

We would love to partner with you and your executive team to build a practical plan for a high-performing, human-centered culture (it’s what we do best). Ensure every executive team member team has a practical plan to model, communicate, and build a cadence of accountability and celebration around those habits. It’s toxic.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The start of the year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. Outstanding performance starts with clear performance expectations —a shared understanding of what success looks like. The new year is the perfect time to reset and refresh performance expectations. “But they SHOULD know better!”

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Here are the common mistakes new managers make: Avoid Accountability Conversations. Avoid accountability conversations. In the meantime, poor performance or toxic behavior continues and becomes the norm. What to do: Address poor performance and disruptive behavior as soon as it happens. Favor Friends and Former Peers.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 8, 2013

Ever wonder why performance is not at the level you expected? We often look through the rear view mirror to analyze our performance. accountability Communication Execution Vision coaching expectant expectations motivation' “Expectations” is one of my favorite topics.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 13, 2022

Lack of accountability. Your success is how successfully your team performs, how they grow, and the quality of problems they solve. The challenge for most managers is that they think they’ve communicated what success looks like, but their team doesn’t have the same picture at all. Lack of Accountability. Be a chokepoint.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 21, 2023

If your managers of managers are struggling to hold their teams accountable, dig a level deeper into the root cause This Asking for a Friend question came in from a manager of managers in one of our executive development programs. How do I get Sue to hold her team accountable, without micromanaging? But she’s got a weak team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

High-Performing Teams Turn Pressure into Progress, One Habit at a Time Your team’s under pressure to perform—fast. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough. They weren’t going to win any high-performing team awards, but things were working well enough.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Operational tactics (looking at the ground beneath your feet) include clear communication, a shared understanding of success, healthy professional relationships, and consistent accountability. Are you consistently communicating critical messages and concepts five times, five different ways?

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The way you respond to challenges, celebrate wins, and communicate expectations creates the framework everyone else will follow. The secret to success is ensuring that the most critical success habits spread throughout your department through deliberate modeling, communication, and reinforcement. So how do you do that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

MAY 3, 2013

A Familiar Story You want your team to perform well in front of senior leadership. accountability Communication Help People to Grow' They’ve practiced their elevator speeches. But, when the exec shows up, they get nervous and eat their shoe. Nerves block circulation. Frightened [.]

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The growing complexity of governance, rapid technological advancement, and rising public expectations have put immense pressure on public servants to perform efficiently (Hornung, 2023). Research indicates that effective coaching helps employees develop their skills and address challenges, leading to improved performance and motivation.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Learn how to shift from a traditional, bottleneck leadership style to one that inspires trust, builds resilience, and drives high performance. 01:42] Early Lessons in Leadership Hear how a childhood experience as a scout leader shaped a foundational understanding of accountability and leading by example. [04:24]

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 15, 2024

High-performing teams invest in clear workplace communication by ensuring shared understanding. When your organization or team communicates effectively, you’re nimble. One easy-to-use workplace communication tool will eliminate most of these frustrations, save you time, and improve performance and morale.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Practice Celebration and Accountability. Creating real trust and the psychological safety that leads to great performance takes time. You cannot over-communicate your team’s shared purpose. Then communicate it five times, five different ways –and then do it again. Practice celebration and accountability.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 1, 2013

The clock’s ticking and there’s pressure to perform. Identify and communicate the biggest [.] accountability Culture' Competing priorities complicate the scene. Pushing harder exacerbates stress. Stress leads to inaction. Time to move fast. The FAST Model F-Focus To move results quickly, focus is key.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 19, 2021

How to Provide More Meaningful Performance Feedback (February 2021). If you knew your manager really cared about you, would you want them to give you meaningful performance feedback? Most employees yearn for more meaningful performance feedback—and are just not getting enough. Learn how to avoid these communication mistakes. .

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International Coach Academy

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This power tool helps clients identify their productivity pitfalls and transform them into strengths, leading to improved performance and better time management. Use accountability partners to maintain focus S Style: “Others vs. Self” Trap : Neglecting personal priorities in favor of others, leading to burnout.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Building a Human-Centered Leadership Approach [00:38] Discover how a human-centered leadership approach can transform your work environment, helping you master communication and accelerate team performance while building a career with respect and influence. [01:30] 18:55] Dive into the importance of mutual dependence in a team.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 16, 2021

When you hear stats like 4 million Americans resigned their roles in one month or that 40% are considering a change in job , you might feel nervous about the future of work, and how the heck you build a culture of sustained performance in all that turmoil. Communicate. Communicate–consistently. Cultivate Curiosity. Contribute.

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Let's Grow Leaders

MARCH 27, 2025

Whats the right setting to deliver a layoff or performance warning? And once youve talked them through, you can teach them, reinforce them, and hold each other accountable. Lets Talk It Through: Common Scenarios to Align On Want to raise the bar on your team or org? Start here. Whats our process when emotions are running high?

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 28, 2023

Do You Tolerate Poor Performance or Let the Slackers Slide? Have you ever found yourself reluctant to hold an employee accountable because you worry they will leave or quiet quit? Or you let a performance issue fester for fear of not being liked? How to Be Okay When It’s Time to Fire a Poor Performer 3.

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Let's Grow Leaders

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

They expect excellence and hold people accountable. Clear understanding improves performance. If you’re not clear on what you want, I guarantee you won’t be able to communicate it. Authenticity & Transparency Communication expectation setting setting clear expectations' “But I assumed you would.”

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Team’s Performance and Collaboration. He mentioned, “The bigger the team, the better performance”. As a result, he dedicates himself to searching for a solution to improve the team’s performance. When the team was reduced to four members, he observed that the amount of communication within the team increased.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 22, 2024

Explain what sloppy mistakes communicate to your customers, stakeholders, and to the rest of the team. Plus, building a peer review process is another way to communicate how important quality checks are. On the highest-performing teams, accountability is a team sport. Of course, they SHOULD know this stuff.

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Let's Grow Leaders

OCTOBER 4, 2024

You might make the mistake I (David) made when I was so grateful for volunteers that I didn’t hold them accountable for their work. Communicate Opportunities Too often, committees ask, “Who should lead this?” Communicate opportunities to cast a broader net and connect your members to the chance to serve and lead.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 8, 2022

Lack of Accountability or Follow-Through. When you don’t practice consistent accountability, you send a message that you don’t value the time and work of your team members who get it done. Solution: Commit to consistent accountability and follow-through. No one wants to waste their time or effort.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

A Coaching Model By Marta Potulna, Leadership and Optimal Performance Coach, AUSTRALIA. The inherent pressure to be “everything to everyone” can undermine leaders’ confidence, self-esteem, and consequently their productivity and performance. Optimal performance doesn’t mean being the best. Just take the first step. Why is that?

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 15, 2024

These five critical insights, delivered through 5×5 communication (five times, five ways), will equip your team to succeed all year long. The Key Metrics That Matterand Why Empower your team by sharing the top-level metrics that fuel company performance, and connect the dots to the broader strategy. to know where they stand.

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Let's Grow Leaders

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

You’ve clarified what matters most and you’re committed to accountability. The manager wasn’t wrong about the performance issue, but he splashed his frustration all over his customers and the rest of the team (not to mention the employee who needed feedback, but not humiliation). Hold performance conversations privately.

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Let's Grow Leaders

APRIL 19, 2021

Practice direct and quick accountability. Practice Accountability & Tough Conversations. Recently we spoke with a high performing leader about the best leaders in her life. method will help you prepare for and hold a performance conversation that builds your relationship and achieves results. The I.N.S.P.I.R.E.

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CMOE

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Even the most exceptional team members encounter challenges or plateaus in their performance from time to time. Performance improvement discussions, when conducted thoughtfully, can foster trust, growth and development. Effective leadership necessitates the ability to conduct meaningful performance discussions.

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Vantage Circle

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Reviewed by : Saurabh Deshpande - People Culture Expert Without accountability, there is no trust, and without trust, there is no leadership. Accountability in leadership involves being transparent about processes, owning mistakes, and committing to continuous improvement. – Capt. (Dr.)

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Let's Grow Leaders

JULY 22, 2024

Explain what sloppy mistakes communicate to your customers, stakeholders, and to the rest of the team. Plus, building a peer review process is another way to communicate how important quality checks are. On the highest-performing teams, accountability is a team sport. Of course, they SHOULD know this stuff.

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Let's Grow Leaders

AUGUST 30, 2021

A cocktail of challenges had affected her team’s normally high performance. I’m worried about what’s going to happen to me, to my team, to this account.”. It’s okay to change your mind–just do it clearly and communicate the reasons.). Karin shared a similar moment where she had a tough couple of weeks. My body is stressed.

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Let's Grow Leaders

JUNE 16, 2017

Robyn McLeod of Thoughtful Leaders Blog presents how to handle in-fighting on your team by sharing four tips that help leaders break through communication barriers and eliminate in-fighting within their teams. Wally Bock of Three Star Leadership says if you’re the boss, you have to confront team members about poor performance.

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