What should employers know about accountability training?
Imagine a good accountability program as a road map to success for your company. Establishing a new, quantitative set of expectations and behaviors for employees can help them to achieve greater levels of success. Employees want to know what road to travel, the tasks they need to accomplish and the milestones along the way. When expectations change or are unclear, it’s like running a race without a finish line. The result will be burnout, lack of motivation and purposeless effort. Developing these new thought paradigms and behaviors might be very difficult and not initially welcome. But once employees begin to take more ownership of tasks and a solid action plan is clear, personal accountability will emerge, lowering stress, increasing overall productivity, influencing job satisfaction and ultimately propelling the organization to its goals and beyond. When employers are committed to accountability training, change happens not because management mandates it, but because individuals are
