Delegate and Build Accountability
Learn how to delegate tasks and build accountability with employees through the Informed Trust Model.
- As a manager, it can be challenging to decide how to effectively delegate or distribute leadership based on the employee capability and the outcome risk.
- Leaders often struggle with coaching employees away from blames and excuses and toward taking accountability.
- The inability to take accountability is often due to a lack of knowledge but also to a lack of will.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Accountability is naturally associated with consequences, both positive and negative, but should be an avenue to foster positive relationships, develop key competencies, and create an environment focused around learning.
- Managers can increase employee empowerment by working
towards better delegation and building accountability, which in turn will lead
to better retention rates.
Impact and Result
- Help leaders adopt an informed approach to delegate and distribute leadership with a comprehensive overview of each component of the Informed Trust Model: Assess, Give, and Verify.
- Managers will understand how to empower their employees to take success into their own hands and take accountability for their results.
- Managers will learn how to coach away from a mindset of blame and toward one of accountability.
About McLean & Company
McLean & Company is an HR research and advisory firm providing practical solutions to human resources challenges via executable research, tools, diagnostics, and advisory services that have a clear and measurable impact on your business.
What Is a Blueprint?
A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your HR problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
Need Extra Help?
Speak With An Analyst
Get the help you need in this 1-phase advisory process. You'll receive 1 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
- Call 1: Discuss the training material and how to customize it with organization-specific processes.
Contributors
- Craig Dowden (Ph.D.), Executive Coach, Keynote Speaker, and Author
- Linda Galindo, Accountability Consultant, Keynote Speaker, Author and Executive Coach, Galindo Consulting Inc.
- Ron Mack, Vice President of Human Resources, HSS Inc.
- Sean Pomeroy, CEO, Visibility Software
- Charles Precourt, General Manager, Propulsion Systems Division, Orbital ATK
- David Robinson, Co-Founder and Partner, TRAC-Team, Mentor, Angel Investor
- Mark Samuel, Author and Accountability Consultant, IMPAQ Corporation
- Andy Thweatt, Southern California Operations Manager, Flyers Energy
- Melodie Barnett, Managing Partner and Change Communicator, Pivot Communications Inc., Author, An Honest Living: Be Wildly Successful Without Being a Jerk
- Kent Flint, VP, Human Resources, Real Estate Webmasters
- Patti Gonzales, SVP HR & Accounting, Capital Farm Credit
- Heather Hochberg, Senior Director & Executive Coach, Graham Holdings Company
- Nadia Keshavjee, Global HR Director, Business for Social Responsibility Inc.
- Kelly Pfeiffer, HR Manager, ADB Airfield Solutions
- Nan Russell, Speaker & Author, Trust, Inc.
- Bob Whipple, CEO, Leadergrow
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