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    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance: The Skill & Will of Getting Things Done On Time Every Time
    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance: The Skill & Will of Getting Things Done On Time Every Time
    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance: The Skill & Will of Getting Things Done On Time Every Time
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    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance: The Skill & Will of Getting Things Done On Time Every Time

    By Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD, DipC.

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    Organizations are desperately searching for ways to help people to contribute to the success and profitability of the enterprise.

    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance is a practical playbook that will help you shape the future of account-ability on your team. It moves you past the outdated, ineffective ways of trying to increase performance improvement. Account-ability is about unleashing people’s unique talents so you can achieve amazing levels of engagement. Account-ability ultimately produces positive business results - in both people and profits.

    Why read this book?
    You can’t just read the book. You have to learn it, practice it and apply the the very practical steps to painless account-ability improvement. Included in the price of the book is a one-to-one executive account-ability coaching session with Dr. Jim. Do not bother to buy this book unless you are truly interested in increasing your employees’ productivity by $5,000 for every one that you pay $50,000.
    Account-ability does not come about by accident; it requires skill and will. This book provides a clear roadmap to developing an culture of account-ability. It explains what to do, why do it, how to do it and how to keep it going. Are you up for the challenge to experience more joy and profit?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 6, 2015
    ISBN9781483549217
    Account-Ability: The Science of Human Performance: The Skill & Will of Getting Things Done On Time Every Time

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      Account-Ability - Dr. Jim Sellner, PhD, DipC.

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      Account-Ability Is a Team Sport

      Top-performing teams we work with have expressed a real desire to build account-ability into their organization.

      Consider the following key questions:

      Does each of your team members understand exactly what they are responsible for and how to fulfill those responsibilities? Yes __ No __

      Do you, as team leader, set consistent expectations backed up with feedback and follow-up to promote account-ability? Yes __ No __

      Do your new team members know exactly what’s expected of them - and why they need to be doing what they’ve been asked to do - on a 30-60-90 day basis? Yes __ No __

      Your team members are self-managing - that is, you do not have to check up on them to make sure they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing. Yes __ No __

      Do you work with a standardized way of monitoring progress? Weekly? Monthly? Quarterly? Yes __ No __

      When you have read this book and put the six-step account-ability process into action, you will be able to answer yes to all of the above questions.

      What Is Account-Ability?

      Account-ability is driven by two human energies: will and skill.

      Will is about the person or team working to complete the task or goal in spite of setbacks.

      Skill is the person’s or team’s ability to carry out a specific task or goal to consistently produce the agreed upon results.

      Most people, much to every manager’s chagrin, have to be taught why it is important to be account-able. They need to learn that account-ability is important because…

      1. their job depends on it.

      2. because without account-ability there is no freedom in this life.

      The absence of account-ability means your life will be governed by have to, should’ve, could’ve, and would’ve. You will feel victimized by authority and circumstance.

      If that isn’t motivation enough to jump on the account-ability bandwagon, I don’t know what is.¹

      Account-ability is a learned skill powered by an internal motivation to use one’s unique talents.

      If a team leader is not holding team members to account, he or she is teaching them to be incompetent and disengaged.

      Teach people the how to’s and why’s of account-ability and they will become skilled and engaged.

      ____________________________

      ¹. The bandwagon effect is a phenomenon whereby the rate of uptake of beliefs, ideas, and behaviours (both destructive and constructive) increases the more that they have already been adopted by others. As more people come to believe in something, others also voluntarily hop on the bandwagon.

      The tendency to follow the actions, beliefs, or behaviours of others occurs because individuals directly prefer to conform, or because individuals derive status, power, and/or influence from other group members. You can be shunned if you don’t "hop

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