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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