2020 has been a year of remote work
management with remote team productivity being the number one priority
for organizations across the world.
Increased accountability is a must for remote teams to be successful.
Accountability is a culture, a deep ingrained
characteristics among great teams. And it must be always practiced right from
the top to the bottom.
A bottoms-up approach won’t work as employees will soon
lose track if the same level of accountability is not displayed by the managers
and leaders of the organization.
What is accountability?
Accountability is about meeting your commitments or
delivering on what you have committed. Be it about responding to an email
within the said time, finishing a report or completing the tasks and projects
at hand.
Stay true to your word! That’s accountability.
Ownership and accountability go hand-in-hand. Owning up to
one’s mistakes, or if you are a manager owning up for a team’s fiasco and
leading the team forward is a great example of accountability.
Imagine your manager shirks away responsibility or
distances himself when a project goes awry. Nah! That’s not right.
The idea is to put the project’s, the team’s and the
organization’s best interest before self!
When a leader is able to do that, others follow and it
becomes a company-wide culture wherein everyone is committed to the
organization’s growth and success.
Which also means, delivering exceptional customer service,
building a high performing work environment and contributing to the community
you live in.
Why is
accountability important for productivity?
Productivity is
about delivering tasks in time with high quality. If there isn’t
accountability, teams tend to lax in their efforts.
Tasks get delayed, quality levels degrade and leads to
team conflicts.
As a result overall performance of the team is impacted
leading to project failure.
Accountability is must for all team members to hold and
deliver their part with utmost sense of urgency and responsibility.
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