ndividuals
and teams have a sense of ownership, and are focused, disciplined and
collaborative, while holding each other accountable for outcomes. - Di Worrall,
Accountability Leadership
My
experience is that accountability is an extremely powerful tool to align an
organization toward its objectives. - Susan Gomez
Good
men prefer to be accountable. - Michael Edwardes
Simple
organizational structure and clear accountability are necessary conditions for
the exercise of effective leadership. - John Adair
A
friend can inspire enthusiasm as well as accountability, and that serves to
challenge you. - Deanna Cosso; Romuald Andrade, Success Cloning
On January 30th, I blogged that I was going to have an accountability
partner for 2018 because someone asked me if I was interested in the
opportunity. I am a pretty disciplined individual,
but I thought it might be beneficial to see how the process would work and if
it would help me grow. For this year, my
accountability partner and I met in-person the first time and then all other
communication have been via email. We
both have busy lives and trying to find time to meet would be to hard, but
emails worked great!
Wikipedia defines an accountability partner as “a person who coaches
another person in terms of helping the other person keep a commitment”. For me, having an accountability partner
pushed me even harder. I knew that I
would have someone asking how I was progressing on my goals, which challenged
me to work more intently on accomplishing them.
Additionally, my accountability partner was very encouraging. As I went through different parts of the
year, I would email my accountability partner and give her updates. She would be encouraging if I seemed down or
if I was not making as much progress with a goal as I had hoped.
Lesson Learned: Accountability is important for SUCCESS!
CHALLENGE: If you
found having an accountability partner helpful in 2018, start thinking about
who you want to be your accountability partner in 2019.
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