"Where you do find people who are passionately committed to their work? You find them working for leaders who are passionately committed to them."
Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability
DISCIPLINE 4: CREATE A CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Each team engages in a simple weekly process that highlights successes, analyzes failures, and course-corrects as necessary, creating the ultimate performance-management system.
The cadence of accountability is a rhythm of regular and frequent team meetings that focus on the wildly important goal. These meetings happen weekly, sometimes daily. Ideally they last no more than 20 minutes. In that brief time, team members hold each other accountable for commitments made to move the score.
“Accountability breeds response-ability.”
DR. STEPHEN R. COVEY
The secret to Discipline 4, in addition to the weekly cadence, are the commitments that team members create in the meeting. One by one, team members answer a simple question: ‘What are the one or two most important things I can do this week that will have the biggest impact on the scoreboard?” In the meeting, each team member reports first if they met last week’s commitments, second if the commitments move the lead or lag measures on the scoreboard and finally which commitments they will make for the upcoming week.
CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
With Discipline 4, accountability is shared. Commitments are not only made between leaders and their teams, they are made between individuals on the teams. By keeping weekly commitments, team members influence the lead measure, which in turn is predictive of success on the lag measure of the WIG.
SOLUTIONS THAT FOCUS ON THE 4 DISCIPLINES
The 4 Disciplines of Execution®
This organization-wide transformation process teaches and sustains the behaviors necessary to execute the most important goals. It ensures that managers and employees identify and execute their highest priorities through focusing on the Wildly Important Goals, translating top goals into specific actions, creating a compelling scoreboard, and holding each other accountable.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution - Book
The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of "the whirlwind." The 4 Disciplines of Execution is not theory. It is a proven set of practices that have been tested and refined by hundreds of organizations and thousands of teams over many years. The 4 Disciplines of Execution represents a new way of thinking and working that is essential to thriving in today’s competitive climate.
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