Creating Cultures of
Healthy Accountability
Good Leadership is an organizational effectiveness firm, founded in 2009, who partners with leaders at every level to build a culture of healthy accountability.
Clients leverage our coaching processes, development programs, diagnostics, and tools to ensure teams thrive and win together on the foundational concept: Goodness Pays.
Goodness in business is when people thrive together is a culture of encouragement, healthy accountability, and positive teamwork.
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Healthy Accountability
Research Confirms:
- 2/3 of employees believe accountability is fear-based and punitive
- 74% of executives know it, but they don’t know how to turn it around
What To Do?
Start With the Good News:
- 95% of employees want to be accountable
- 82% have seen firsthand how healthy accountability improves business results
Good Leadership partners with leaders at every level to create a culture of healthy accountability in healthcare, business, hospitality, and entertainment.
When accountability is healthy, better business results follow. Companies whose employees identify accountability
as healthy have:
- 18% higher sales
- 23% greater profitability
- 14% more productivity
- 10% higher customer ratings
- 3x shareholder returns
Sources: Gallup, McKinsey, Bersin Global, Harvard Business Review
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 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
You’re in the people business. Because all of the people in your organization are managed by other people in your organization. Inconsistency in how people are managed fuels the rumor mill and sows the seeds of dissatisfaction. Your talent pool will grow faster and perform better when the people managers work with a unified mindset and skillset that aligns with a culture of healthy accountability.
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 consistently 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
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