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4 Ways to Make Your Staff Accountable
 Is your team actually accountable, or just busy? Want to know how to get your staff accountable without micromanaging?
Let’s break down the four ways to increase accountability in your team:
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1. Statistics
It’s where you measure a number or amount of something. The important thing is that it has to be a result that is valuable to your business. That’s the first thing to know.
Most of the time, when I go into businesses, there are staff running around, vaguely saying they have some KPIs, but they don’t have statistics. you have to measure statistics on a weekly or fortnightly basis, preferably weekly.
It’s not a one-time thing. You keep measuring statistics week after week, and then it’s best to graph it so you can see the trends. Is it going up, or is it going down?
So, what should you choose as a statistic? What do you measure? This can take some time to work out. You can sit down with us and work it out, or you can choose to sit down with your team and...
W.O.R.K? Busy or Productive?
Some say we work too much...
Some say we don’t work enough...
Many work for money...
Others work because they love it...while the people who hate their jobs don’t believe them.
What is work?
Try this, ask each member of your team “What is the definition of work?
You’ll get all kinds of answers:
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“What I do to make money.”
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“Sitting in this office for eight hours a day.”
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"The boring stuff I have to do so I can pay my bills.” (thinking this)
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“Hanging out, having fun, and maybe getting something done.”
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“Doing things for our customers.”
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 Etc.
I’ve done this in all sorts of businesses, you get all sorts of answers.
This is the first problem: People don’t have a clear definition of work.
If you want to solve a problem, you must define the problem.
The definition of work: Mental or physical effort done to produce a result.
So we want results. But you may have noticed people produce results of varying desirability:
Some r...
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