Five Must-Do’s for Building—and Sustaining—Leadership Accountability

As a leader, you hear the “accountability” buzzword all the time. Although you probably have a good idea about what it means, accountability sometimes gets misconstrued. Leaders get confused or sidetracked with strategies they think uphold accountability, but those very things can actually have the opposite effect.

For example, “hardworking” bosses may constantly check in and check up on their team members’ productivity and performance…but to a degree that’s actually obsessive, disempowering tea...