Insights & Organizational Accountability
Role Clarity: What is it, and Why is it Important?
In every team, each role plays a vital part, and every member brings a unique contribution to the table. A clear understanding of these roles is the key to inspiring greater engagement, improved performance, and overall thriving in the workplace.
It helps everyone understand the importance and value others bring, facilitates collaboration toward organizational goals and ensures that contributions are recognized. This clarity helps build a culture of accountability and trust, making remote interactions smoother and more effective. It ultimately drives better performance and engagement.
Workplace Accountability; Organizational Systems That Enable Accountability
How does your organization approach accountability? What systems are in place to support a positive accountability culture?
You may have an accountability mindset and are developing the skills to hold others accountable, but without the right organizational systems, you won’t be successful in creating a culture of accountability.
Sustainable Staffing: Strategies for Retention and Attraction When Funding is Inconsistent
Imagine being offered a new job, knowing there’s only enough money to pay you for twelve months. Would you take it?
Nonprofit and community organizations are often limited in their ability to offer long-term roles due to the funding models they have to work within. Demand for talented staff is high, but unstable funding means employees frequently leave before a limited contract expires.
This high turnover not only disrupts the continuity of work but also hampers the organization’s ability to achieve its mission.
Workplace Accountability: Developing the Skills to Hold Others Accountable
I conducted a survey in 2023, which revealed that although 93% of workers expect to be held accountable, 66% agreed that they find it difficult to hold others accountable. In a Benchmark survey, almost 1/4 of CEOs listed accountability as their biggest weakness.
So, if you are struggling to hold others accountable, you are not alone.
Thankfully, accountability is a skill we can develop. It’s also a mindset and organizational system.
Workplace Accountability: Creating an Accountability Mindset
The four strategies I share in this post will be the beginning of thinking about accountability differently.
Instead of being a ‘bad word’, it will be something your teams will want to embrace. A mindset where accountability, compassion and respect go hand in hand.
Finding Keys in Quarantine #3
Finding Keys in Quarantine #3: Choosing to ELOPE Over the past few weeks, I have been sharing some insights that I have been learning from my time in quarantine that might resonate with others. Most of these insights have always been in me, however, like finally finding lost keys when you have been looking for ages, it is only when
Making Good Decisions in a Crisis
Considering Alternative Perspectives My passion has always been about helping others make better decisions. I train on it, I consult on it, I speak on it. I believe that if we make better decisions, we can create a better world. Never has there been a better time to consider our decisions, or the impact of those decisions, than now. I
Is Your Gut Leading You Down the Right Path?
Years of experience need to count for something, right? But is your instinct on what decisions to make regarding the path forward for your business really sending you in the right direction? By Nature, Humans are Poor Decision-Makers At a basic level, we process information very quickly and seek out only the information required to validate our thinking. In the
