Jim Dethmer believes managers and organizations shouldn’t be holding people accountable. He makes distinctions between “holding accountable” and “taking responsibility” asserting:
- Holding accountable is something someone else is doing to me or something I’m doing to someone else.
- Accountability is something that is assigned by someone to someone else to make them take account for past actions, for what they did or didn’t do.
Source: Conscious Leadership Group. Link. If you as a manager or leader are still holding people accountable you can take responsibility for not creating a culture of impeccable agreements and responsibility.
In this new culture it won’t be your job as a manager to hold anyone accountable. Your teammates will take responsibility and come to you and their colleagues when they don’t keep their agreements. You’ll be able to spend your energy on things that are yours to do and not things others can be doing.”
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