Want Results? Fix Accountability

This article was originally published by Chief Learning Officer. See link below for full article. 

Would it surprise you to learn that 9 out of 10 management teams cannot describe, with complete alignment, the most important results their organizations need to achieve? Their responses vary not only around which results are most important, but also the description itself.

The fallout from this confusion is that more than 3 out of 4 people struggle to understand exactly what their organization is trying to achieve.

The lack of clearly defined key results is one of the major themes from Partners In Leadership’s 2014 Workplace Accountability Study (Editor’s note: The authors co-founded Partners In Leadership). The study findings reveal a basic assumption — that“result expectations are clear to the organization” — is a flawed assumption at best.

Further, many leaders are unaware their teams or organizations don’t clearly understand their targeted results. This explains missed execution because of confused priorities and diluted focus, a lack ofpersonal ownership and accountability for strategic organizational imperatives and a lack of traction to accelerate progress on enterprisewide initiatives (Figure 1).

Read full article at Chief Learning Officer  – “Want Results? Fix Accountability”