Tag: Accountability
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Empowerment: It is the “Why” of Delegation
Empowerment is not a new word in the domain of leadership and political correctness. It is, however, not a word comfortably associated with delegation.
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The Benefits of Accountability
By being accountable to ourselves and others by owning up to our mistakes, we are helping to ensure that they are quickly fixed, that we learn from them, and that we earn respect in the process.
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Why Simply Setting Standards is not Enough.
Standards are not the end, the good leader makes use of standards in order to grow his people and consistently help them achieve excellence.
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Dealing with Poor Performance
Being a leader of such stature involves a great number of things. One the essential requirements of good leadership is dealing with poor performance effectively.
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A Dialogue About Training
We’ve been given the responsibility of upping our standards and, frankly, my team is resisting, grumbling about being expected to do something impossible.
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5 Reasons Managers Should Spend Time With Direct Reports
Mangers often under-estimate the importance of spending a sufficient amount of time with their direct reports. For one thing, people tend to equate the time spent with them by their leader with their importance or the importance of the issue.
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Signs of Immaturity
On the face of it, the signs of immaturity are fairly easy to identify, at least in certain circumstances. However, the range of behaviours called immature is of a great variety.
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Organisations as Platforms for Human Excellence
Organisations must have the agenda of empowering employees and not seek to exploit them for profit. In other words organisations must seek to become platforms for creativity and progress rather than profit machines.
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Did The Marikana Report Bring Justice?
There is absolutely a place for justice in any society and the watchword for justice must be “accountability”.
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Intent and the Issue of Incompetency
Accountability essentially works on a person’s intent. Accountability is the mechanism by which you address the self-serving motive which so often lies at the root of incompetency.