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February 16, 2026
Organizational Effectiveness:
Healthy accountability.
The biggest drain on productivity, morale, and performance in your organization is inconsistent accountability.
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Leadership
Alignment
When the teams at the top are aligned around a compelling plan, everything becomes easier.
Team
Commitment
When leaders are committed to creating a teams of teams environment, everything moves faster.
Healthy
Accountability
When people win together in an environment where individuals take personal ownership, embrace the support of the team, and deliver quality work on time, everything is better.
Healthy Accountability is the Glue for How Goodness Pays.
Good Leadership’s research has shown you can’t have an effective organization without good leadership. You can’t have good leadership without goodness. Healthy Accountability is the glue for how goodness pays.
The Pathway to Healthy Accountability™ is a continuous cycle focused on five key elements that enhance leadership and engagement. In modern organizations, which operate as teams of teams, a shared sense of accountability is essential, as highlighted by Good Leadership’s accountability research.
When accountability is healthy, excellent business results follow.
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Culture of Healthy Accountability
Inconsistent accountability hurts your productivity, morale, and customer focus.
Healthy Accountability improves performance, because people win together, in an environment where individuals take personal ownership, and embrace the support of the team to deliver quality work on time.
Executive Alignment
When the team at the top is not aligned, everyone (and everything) suffers.
When executives narrow the focus of the organization to the three most important priorities, teams and people managers help one another deliver on the organization’s most important goals.
Team Alignment
Most organizations struggle to align matrixed teams of teams who need to work together effectively to deliver for customers.
With a consistent teaming methodology and a mission activation process, teams pull together and help one another to deliver work better, faster, and easier.
Organizational Alignment
All organizations are perfectly aligned to deliver the results they get – most managers know attitudes about accountability are unhealthy.
Healthy accountability begins to improve business results when employees see how they are connected to external customers and they know where they fit and why their work matters.
Talent Planning
Loose hiring practices and inconsistent promotions pull your workforce away from accountability.
When you have Industry A players in the mission critical roles, you raise the cultural standard and erase the fear of accountability, so individuals seek accountability and help one another delivery quality work on time.
People Management
Goodness Pays
Goodness is when people thrive together in a culture of encouragement, healthy accountability, and positive teamwork. It’s the foundation for how good leaders build a culture of healthy accountability.
Leadership Development
Inconsistency amongst team leaders creates confusion and power dynamics that inhibit accountability in your organization.
A unifying development program improves team consistency and builds the skills for leaders to coach one another – one of the most important levers for a culture of healthy accountability.
Organizational Effectiveness is the ability of an organization to efficiently achieve its goal and objectives.
The three things effective organizations must get right:
- The teams at the top need to be aligned
- Team leaders need to be trained on the same teaming methodology and language
- Organization needs to have industry A-players in mission critical roles
The Seven Fs™ - A Powerful Part of
the Good Leadership and
Healthy Accountability Story.
Through coaching and programs leaders like you learn how “work” and “life” are not sacrificed for one another. Good leaders today know how to blend their work life and home life effectively as measured by the Seven Fs: Faith, Family, Finances, Fitness, Friends, Fun and Future. Arranged alphabetically, they tell a powerful story about how good leaders radiate goodness and create a growth mindset where people seek accountability. Paul Batz and Tim Schmidt wrote these words in their bestselling book, What Really Works in 2012.
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