Focused Leadership Development

Article | Accountability Insights

by | Nov 28, 2012

There is a leadership crisis in today’s organizations when it comes to holding people accountable. One of our recent studies revealed that only 13% of executives surveyed felt they held other people accountable for results in an effective, successful way. 86% admitted that their ineffectiveness often leads to failure in achieving desired results. So, it’s no surprise that developing leadership competency relative to accountability, culture change, execution and organizational improvement has become a top priority for most organizations.

Here’s how one manager from a leading architectural firm described the impact of focusing leadership training and development on taking personal accountability for achieving key results and helping others do the same: “We now have a much greater awareness of the experiences we create for each other and how those experiences shape our beliefs, drive our actions, and produce the organization’s results.” People throughout the organization are now asking, “what else can I do?” to achieve our organization’s key results. Substantial improvements in employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and profitability have occurred within the first year. The firm is now sustaining its commitment and is improving its ability to hold others accountable in a positive, principled way going forward.

Focusing leadership development on helping leaders do a better job of holding themselves and others accountable for results in a positive and principled way can have an enormous impact in your organization. To learn more about leadership development that builds greater accountability in leaders and their direct reports, we invite you to join the Accountability Community at www.partnersinleadership.com, where you can review actual client case studies.

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