Download or read book Freedom and Accountability at Work written by Peter Koestenbaum and published by Pfeiffer. This book was released on 2001-08-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Koestenbaum and Peter Block offer you a new perspective forviewing the workplace through the lens of philosophy so that youmay have a better understanding of how to reclaim your freedom andaccountability and encourage the same in others. They provide aradical new approach to your work-a-day life that will bring truemeaning and power to your work. Freedom and Accountability at Work offers you the information youneed to: * Gain strength and meaning by transforming your thinking on howyou view anxiety, doubt, death, and guilt * Find new ways to bring spiritual and ethical values into yourworkplace * Engage in profound change that will help you overcome cynicismthat comes from superficial change * Replace your loss of organizational loyalty and safety with asense of freedom and accountability "Both Koestenbaum and Block are such passionate men who bringtogether what we all seek in our work life-meaning, insight, andhumanness. Bless them for this book." --Joyce DeShano, board chair, Ascension Health

Download or read book Accountability work written by Carolyn Taylor and published by Walking Your Talk Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Putting accountability at the heart of any business can be transformational. This step-by-step guide shows you why and how to achieve lasting cultural change.

Download or read book Making Accountability Work written by Burt Perrin and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like honesty and clean water, "accountability" is invariably seen as a good thing. Conversely, the absence of accountability is associated with most of the greatest abuses in human history. Accountability is thus closely linked with the exercise of power and the legitimacy of policies and those pursuing them. This book looks at the role of evaluation and of audit as key elements in democratic accountability processes. The contributors explore the apparent paradox of there being more accountability-related activities today than ever before, at the same time as much public debate laments what is seen as a lack of actual accountability. Such a situation raises a number of questions: Is there a need for different approaches to establishing accountability or can current arrangements be modified to make them more effective? Are present practices part of the problem and are they preventing a mature debate about performance improvement taking place? How can systems awash with performance information ensure that at least some of it makes sense to a wide range of potential users? How is it that greater accountability and transparency can so quickly have become associated with concerns about perverse incentives and be seen by some as a costly burden? The volume includes detailed case studies and synthesizes up-to-date research evidence drawn from very different governmental systems, ending with practical advice for those involved in the accountability processes. In doing so, it attempts to address both conceptual ambiguities about the notion of "accountability" and the practical uncertainties over its implications for democratic government. This book is aimed at serious people who think about trends in the use of evaluation and audit in seeking to hold governments accountable for their actions and performance.

Download or read book Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace written by Elaina Noell and published by . This book was released on 2019-04-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Walking the Talk written by Carolyn Taylor and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new, fully revised edition. The culture of an organisation can mean the difference between success and failure. Leaders cast long shadows, and if you want to change the culture you have to walk the talk. This book shows you how. Walking the Talk covers everything from measuring corporate culture to changing people's behaviour (including your own) and describes in detail six archetypes of company culture: Achievement, Customer-Centric, One-Team, Innovative, People-First and Greater-Good. Packed with fascinating examples and case histories, and drawing extensively on Carolyn Taylor's twenty years' experience of building great cultures, it will give you the confidence to build a culture of success in your own organisation.

Download or read book Accountability The Key to Driving a High Performance Culture written by Greg Bustin and published by McGraw Hill Professional. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best practices for using accountability, trust, and purpose to turn your long-term vision into reality Accountability explains why the “carrot-and-stick” approach doesn’t work—and describes how to build and sustain a culture based on shared beliefs, positive action, and internal leadership development. The author’s conclusions are based on data resulting from his work with more than 3,000 executives worldwide, plus exclusive interviews with Fortune's Most Admired Companies and Best Places to Work. Greg Bustin has written a monthly bulletin about leadership and accountability that goes to more than 4,000 managers/executives. He speaks about 50 times per year in the U.S., Canada, and the UK and is one of the top-rated Vistage speakers. He also gives workshops and webinars on planning, execution, and accountability to business owners and leaders in the U.S. and Canada.

Download or read book Reality Based Leadership written by Cy Wakeman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-09-21 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership strategies grounded in reality and focused on results Recent polls show that 71% of workers think about quitting their jobs every day. That number would be shocking-if people actually were quitting. Worse, they go to work, punching time clocks and collecting pay checks, while completely checked out emotionally. In Reality-Based Leadership, expert Fast Company blogger Cy Wakeman reveals how to be the kind of leader who changes the way people think about and perceive their circumstances-one who deals with the facts, clarifies roles, gives clear and direct feedback, and insists that everyone do the same-without drama or defensiveness. Filled with dynamic examples, innovative tools, and diagnostic tests, this book shows you how to become a Reality-Based Leader, revealing how to: Uncover destructive thought patterns with yourself and others Diffuse drama and lead the person in front of you Stop managing and start leading, empowering others to focus on facts and think for themselves Equipped with a facts-based, confident approach, you will free yourself from the frustrations you face at work and transform yourself into a Reality-Based Leader, with the ability to liberate and inspire others.

Download or read book Accountability Taking Ownership of Your Responsibility written by Henry Browning and published by Center for Creative Leadership. This book was released on 2012-01-03 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More and more managerial challenges require leaders to be accountable-to take initiative without having full authority for the process or the outcomes. Accountability goes beyond responsibility. Whereas responsibility is generally delegated by the boss, the organization, or by virtue of position, accountability is having an intrinsic sense of ownership of the task and the willingness to face the consequences that come with success or failure. Through this guidebook you will learn how your organization and its leaders can create a culture that fosters accountability by focusing on five areas: support, freedom, information, resources, and goal and role clarity.

Download or read book How Leaders Can Inspire Accountability written by Michael Timms and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership development consultant Michael Timms has discovered three powerful habits that not only make one a better leader, but also encourage those they lead to take greater accountability themselves. Using a compelling combination of teaching principles and illustrations backed by loads of scientific studies, Timms reveals three habits of personal accountability that are easy to implement and which can instantly begin transforming positional leaders into true leaders who inspire everyone to take more accountability for results.

Download or read book WAG Your Work written by Kimberly A. Skarupski and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Accountability Groups (WAGs) began when Kimberly Skarupski, PhD, MPH of Johns Hopkins Medicine started gathering faculty to meet once a week in small groups with a clear goal of developing an unbreakable writing habit. The WAGs method makes writing automatic, mechanical and as routine as tying your shoes... there's nothing magical or mysterious about writing! WAGs participants build their scholarly writing habits the same way you'd train at a gym, play a sport, or master a musical instrument.This book captures the essence of the WAGs experience and all the practical steps needed to develop consistent writing habits.

Download or read book Who Controls Teachers Work written by Richard M. Ingersoll and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Schools are places of learning but they are also workplaces, and teachers are employees. As such, are teachers more akin to professionals or to factory workers in the amount of control they have over their work? And what difference does it make? Drawing on large national surveys as well as wide-ranging interviews with high school teachers and administrators, Richard Ingersoll reveals the shortcomings in the two opposing viewpoints that dominate thought on this subject: that schools are too decentralized and lack adequate control and accountability; and that schools are too centralized, giving teachers too little autonomy. Both views, he shows, overlook one of the most important parts of teachers' work: schools are not simply organizations engineered to deliver academic instruction to students, as measured by test scores; schools and teachers also play a large part in the social and behavioral development of our children. As a result, both views overlook the power of implicit social controls in schools that are virtually invisible to outsiders but keenly felt by insiders. Given these blind spots, this book demonstrates that reforms from either camp begin with inaccurate premises about how schools work and so are bound not only to fail, but to exacerbate the problems they propose to solve.

Download or read book The Oz Principle written by Roger Connors and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive book on workplace accountability by the New York Times bestselling authors of How Did That Happen? Since it was originally published in 1994, The Oz Principle has sold nearly 600,000 copies and become the worldwide bible on accountability. Through its practical and invaluable advice, thousands of companies have learned just how vital personal and organizational accountability is for a company to achieve and maintain its best results. At the core of the authors' message is the idea that when people take personal ownership of their organization's goals and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more invested and work at a higher level to ensure not only their own success, but everyone's. Now more than ever, The Oz Principle is vital to anyone charged with obtaining results. It is a must have, must read, and must apply classic business book.

Download or read book Winning with Accountability written by Henry J. Evans and published by CornerStone Leadership Inst. This book was released on 2008-10 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Looking to achieve greater results by creating a high-accountability culture in your organization? This book shows you how! By implementing this Accountability process, you can take your team to new levels of excellence. The practical methods outlined in this book will guide you to increase your personal and organization's success"--Book cover

Download or read book Supportive Accountability written by Sylvia Melena and published by . This book was released on 2018-07-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSPIRE EMPLOYEES AND IMPROVE PERFORMANCE WITH SUPPORTIVE ACCOUNTABILITY LEADERSHIP: Some leaders are too harsh. Some are too lenient. Others are completely disengaged from employee performance management. Striking a delicate balance between supportive leadership and accountability is the key to ensuring employees are as effective and productive as possible.Sylvia Melena is the architect of the Supportive Accountability Leadership¿ Model, a simple but powerful framework that helps leaders create a motivating work environment while promoting accountability and improving performance. Through a mix of stories, actionable tips, and tools, you'll learn how to:¿Master the art of supportive leadership¿Inspire employees to advance your organization's vision¿Monitor performance and customer service efficiently¿Lead effective performance improvement conversations¿Pinpoint critical support factors to unleash performance¿Wield the power of employee recognition¿Boost performance through progressive discipline¿Document skillfully You'll also receive free access to the Performance Documentation Toolkit to help you ease the burden of employee performance documentation.

Download or read book What You Accept is What You Teach written by Michael Henry Cohen and published by Creative Health Care Management. This book was released on 2006-10-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While everyone is accountable for their own behavior, leaders are ultimately responsible for employee performance. By setting their own standards of exceptional performance, managers teach their employees to accept accountability for their own actions and attitudes. What You Accept is What You Teach is the perfect "how to" guide for navigating the maze of challenging employee communication and performance problems. It is an excellent resource for developing a healthy culture of accountability and improved employee performance. In use by more than 25,000 managers nation-wide.

Download or read book QBQ The Question Behind the Question written by John G. Miller and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-09 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lack of personal accountability is a problem that has resulted in an epidemic of blame, victim thinking, complaining, and procrastination. No organization—or individual—can successfully compete in the marketplace, achieve goals and objectives, provide outstanding service, engage in exceptional teamwork, or develop people without personal accountability. John G. Miller believes that the troubles that plague organizations cannot be solved by pointing fingers and blaming others. Rather, the real solutions are found when each of us recognizes the power of personal accountability. In QBQ! The Question Behind the Question®, Miller explains how negative, ill-focused questions like “Why do we have to go through all this change?” and “Who dropped the ball?” represent a lack of personal accountability. Conversely, when we ask better questions—QBQs—such as “What can I do to contribute?” or “How can I help solve the problem?” our lives and our organizations are transformed. THE QBQ! PROMISE This remarkable and timely book provides a practical method for putting personal accountability into daily actions, with astonishing results: problems are solved, internal barriers come down, service improves, teams thrive, and people adapt to change more quickly. QBQ! is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to learn, grow, and change. Using this tool, each of us can add tremendous worth to our organizations and to our lives by eliminating blame, victim-thinking, and procrastination. QBQ! was written more than a decade ago and has helped countless readers practice personal accountability at work and at home. This version features a new foreword, revisions and new material throughout, and a section of FAQs that the author has received over the years.

Download or read book Managing for Accountability written by Lynne Curry and published by Business Expert Press. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Veteran management consultant and HR expert Dr. Lynne Curry provides business owners, leaders, and managers a complete roadmap for creating accountability in the workplace. Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox contains everything business owners and managers need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable, high performing, engaged employees who invest one hundred percent in their jobs. This practical guide offers field-tested tools, strategies, and proven tactics for locating, developing and managing motivated, engaged, committed employees focused on performance, productivity, and results. Curry details pragmatic strategies that succeed despite the pandemic and that work effectively with all employees, whether they’re top talent, those who occasionally falter, or come from diverse backgrounds and generations. If you want to create a culture of accountability in your workplace and develop high-performing teams that lead your business to unparalleled levels of success, you will want this invaluable resource close at hand. This is must read for every leader, owner, or manager.