Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets to Employee Engagement, Accountability, and Results

We all know it. Demanding accountability in the workplace is the quickest way to get your employees to start fidgeting nervously and looking at the door. Traditional accountability methods leave leaders frustrated with limited, ineffective tools and leave employees feeling criticized, discouraged, and even disengaged. Using a foundation of neuroscience and human dynamics, Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace brings a much-needed modern approach to inspiring employee engagement, productivity, and results. Packed with a robust toolset, this definitive guide provides practical tools and brain-based strategies to improve leaders ease, ability, and effectiveness at cultivating the very best from their teams. Youll learn how to hold employees accountable while maintaining engagement, receptiveness, resourcefulness, including how to: Use the Results Model to have productive accountability conversations Adopt Possibility Thinking, asking whats in the way and whats possible Set clear expectations (accountability anchors) Revisit expectations to activate accountability Leverage the brains secrets to employee engagement with the Engagement and Experience Loop Infuse neurochemicals and fulfill foundational workplace needs to improve engagement, receptiveness and resourcefulness Provide effective acknowledgement and rewards Inspire employees to have clarity, confidence, optimism to maximize results Ask questions that inspire engagement, accountability and development Avoid employees getting triggered, which reduces their ability to contribute Avoid anxious effort and keep employees in active effort Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace will have you moving past problems to possibilities. The generous amount of concrete leadership tools available in this book will work for companies of every size, and you will find yourself returning to this resource often. This book will change the way you lead, change the way your employees think, and clear the pathway to getting better and better results. -Rose Souders, CEO and Founder, Potluck Consulting