{"id":62365,"date":"2022-03-07T17:03:04","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T21:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=62365"},"modified":"2022-03-20T17:07:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T21:07:57","slug":"accountability-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/accountability-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Accountability Meetings: Tips for Leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Do you hold accountability meetings with your employees? How often do you meet, and what do you discuss? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-4-disciplines-of-execution\/\">The 4 Disciplines of Execution<\/a><\/em>, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey recommend holding a weekly accountability meeting\u2014what they call a WIG (Wildly Important Goal) session. At each <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/wig-session\/\">WIG session<\/a>, team members will report what they&#8217;ve accomplished last week and what they plan to accomplish in the coming week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep reading to learn about the 4DX accountability meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-discipline-4-accountability\"><strong>Discipline 4: Accountability<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Discipline 4, the authors recommend holding a weekly accountability meeting. <\/strong>Because achieving the goal is now a game, people are accountable to their teammates as well as the boss. When people know others are depending on them, they\u2019re more motivated and engaged, they try harder, and performance becomes a matter of personal pride. Regular goal sessions and mandatory attendance are key to this discipline\u2014accountability requires consistency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>According to the authors, the goal session should take place at least once a week, last less than 30 minutes, and have a specific agenda:<\/strong> Review the scoreboard, report on last week\u2019s commitments (and celebrate them), and come up with new commitments.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McChesney, Huling, and Covey say that goal session commitments must influence your current effort measurements (deluge tasks\u2014the endless day-to-day business of running the company\u2014do not belong in these meetings). Commitments must be focused, specific, impactful, and take no longer than a week to complete. The person who makes the commitment must be able to do most of the work themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The authors add that leaders should make weekly commitments too. <\/strong>The most effective commitments for leaders are ones that help their team achieve <em>their<\/em> individual commitments and improve their execution. For example, if a team member requires a new piece of software, a leader could secure approval for the purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Accountability Requires Empowerment<\/strong><br><br>To <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-do-you-hold-employees-accountable\/\">hold employees accountable<\/a> for their commitments, you must first empower them to carry out those commitments. The authors say that team members should choose their own goals, and that any individual commitment must be achievable by the person who made that commitment, but they never directly address <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/employee-empowerment\/\">employee empowerment<\/a>.&nbsp;<br><br><a href=\"http:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-leadership-challenge\/\"><em>The Leadership Challenge<\/em><\/a> explains <em>how<\/em> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-empower-employees-as-a-leader\/\">empower employees<\/a>, noting that <a href=\"https:\/\/shortform.com\/app\/book\/the-leadership-challenge\/principle-4#1-build-a-sense-of-self-determination\">empowerment directly leads to accountability<\/a>. In brief, it works like this:<br><br>Give employees the authority to make decisions and carry them out\u2014remove as many managerial controls and approval processes as possible.<br><br>Hold employees responsible for the decisions they make and the actions they undertake, both the good and the bad.<br><br>Employees will naturally develop feelings of accountability. Because they\u2019re acting on their own authority and reaping the benefits (or penalties) of their decisions, they\u2019ll develop a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-endowment-effect\/\">sense of ownership<\/a> for their work: It truly feels like <em>their <\/em>work, rather than something they\u2019re doing for their boss or for the company.&nbsp;<br><br><em>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/common-business-problems\/\">Leadership Challenge<\/a> <\/em>also notes that empowered, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/accountable-employees\/\">accountable employees<\/a> will be much more engaged with their work (remember Discipline 3)\u2014because they feel responsible for their own projects, they\u2019ll naturally go beyond their specifically assigned roles and tasks in order to achieve the best results possible.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hold accountability meetings with your employees? How often do you meet, and what do you discuss? In The 4 Disciplines of Execution, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling, and Sean Covey recommend holding a weekly accountability meeting\u2014what they call a WIG (Wildly Important Goal) session. At each WIG session, team members will report what they&#8217;ve accomplished last week and what they plan to accomplish in the coming week. 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