How to Improve Team Member Accountability (Team Building Tool Box for Busy Managers) [Kindle Edition]

Product Description
Working in teams provides a company with great benefits. But one big drawback for people that are working in teams is holding each other accountable. We’ve all heard horror stories of teams where one person just refused to carry their load and the rest of the team had to make up for it.

Most people want responsibility. But when it comes to holding others accountable, many team members may express concern that it is not their job to “police” other people. They think holding a team member accountable is the team leader’s job. That is far from the truth.

It’s important to help them realize that team member accountability becomes a team issue when team member actions aren’t supporting the needs of the team. It’s also important to emphasize that shared ownership depends on the willingness of each member to provide each other with useful feedback.

If the team leader is the only one monitoring and providing feedback, that makes team performance that person’s sole responsibility. And in that case, why bother to have a team at all?

Team member accountability should be a shared responsibility between the team leader and the team. A high functioning team holds its members mutually accountable and has feedback mechanisms in place to correct issues as they occur.

In this short step-by-step guide, you’ll learn the steps you can take to help your team members be “accountable” along with ways to make it easy for each of them to hold their teammates accountable for their actions.