One of the best things about running your own business is that you're not answerable to anyone and yet that's also one of your greatest weaknesses/ The Three A's of Accountability

1. How To Power
Your Business Results with
Accountability Measures

2. What Is Accountability?
Being responsible for
something…
Being Answerable for it too!

3. Why Is Accountability Important?
 Lifelong dreams can stay sat on the shelf
 Fabulous ideas can never make it to fruition
 Mundane, but ESSENTIAL tasks can get
pushed to the bottom of the list
 Talks like this can remain unwritten and
undelivered!

4. The 3 Elements of Accountability
1 Acceptance
2 Activity
3 Answerability

5. TAMSEN GARRIE
Tam With A Plan

6. Planning Works!
Senior Management job
Flat in Chelsea
Nice car
Disposable income

7. Whilst my planning…
Did always result in the
outcomes I planned
Did NOT always
result in the
outcomes I
wanted!

8. Planned myself…
‘Successfully…’
…into being
miserable!

9. Since then……
 HR Professional
 Psycho/Hypnotherapist & Coach
 Created and led dozens of teams
 Developed hundreds of leaders
 Run my own small business
 Developed the UK’s largest Business
Network

10. I’ve worked with…
Thousands of small business owners:
 Leader & Manager
 Coach & Mentor
 Consultant & Trainer
 Therapist
People who have accountability in their
business achieve MORE and FASTER

11. Three Elements of Accountability
1 Acceptance
2 Activity
3 Answerability

12. ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 1
Acceptance

13. 1 Acceptance
“What you resist, persists” (Carl Jung)
When you are unaware of (or in denial
about!) how things actually are…
They remain the same
You have no reason to change them…
So you don’t

14. 1 Acceptance
Only when we accept:
 Who we are (warts and all!)
 The way things are (no matter how tough!)
 That we can’t do it all on our own (OMBDW!)
Can we start to change things!

15. 1 Acceptance
Awareness
Acknowledgement
Acceptance

16. 1 Acceptance
Ask yourself these questions…
 Do you plan for success?
 Do you follow through on your plans?
 Do the results in your business match your effort?
 Are you generating the leads/enquiries you want?
 Are you converting the sales you want?
 Are you moving your business forward consistently?

17. ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 2
Activity

18. 2 Activity
Doing the right activity!
Two scenarios:
1 Stuck
2 Wheel Spinning

19. 2 Activity
Do the right activity:
 Create a Vision (destination)
 Set Goals (milestones)
 Define Activities (mileage)
 Implement Accountability Measures

20. ACCOUNTABILITY ELEMENT 3
Answerability

21. 3 Answerability
You know what it’s like…
 You set your goals with enthusiasm & good intent
 The first couple of items get done
 The short-term pressure is relieved
 Somehow you lose motivation and momentum
There’s no one to answer to!

22. 3 Answerability
Even the most
successful people
need answerability!
In fact, successful people ARE successful
BECAUSE they have it!

23. 3 Answerability
Two types of Answerability
 Internal
 External

24. 3 Answerability
Internal – Self-Leadership
 The commitment and the capacity to take
responsibility for our own outcomes
 The opposite of shifting responsibility onto
other people and circumstances

25. 3 Answerability
External – “what will make me do it?”
 Coach
 Mentor
 Family
 Accountability group or partner

26. Accountability Measures
 Hour by Hour Qualifier Question
 Day by Day Daily Planner
 Week by Week Default Diary
 Month by Month Coach, Mentor,
Buddy or Group

27. Your FREE Accountability Tool!
Put your name and email address on
the form… and we will send you our
day-by-day accountability measure
The Daily Accountability Tool by email.