How to Make Accountability Part of Your Team’s Culture

with Gina Cotner

The Growing your Team Podcast: Episode 279

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When you hire a team member, you want them to succeed at producing the work you’re hiring them to do. Part of this success means that they are accountable for their work, and you don’t have to spend all your time ensuring their deliverables are on time and accurate.

Curating a culture of accountability is vital to the longevity and success of your business, but how can you achieve it?

You have to create it. You have to show your team what accountability looks like in your business, but that upfront work will help create a team that surpasses your accountability standards.

Gina Cotner joins the Growing Your Team podcast to share how you, as a business owner, can make accountability a part of your team’s culture.

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In this Episode You’ll Hear:

  • How to build an accountable team 
  • How consistency builds safety and clarity

  • Why follow-up is leadership, not micromanagement

  • Examples of how to prioritize correction and compassion at the same time

  • Why relational accountability outperforms fear-based compliance

  • How to make accountability a natural part of your team’s culture 

About Gina Cotner:

Gina Cotner is the CEO of Athena Executive Services, a firm that pairs virtual Executive Assistants around the United States with swamped and successful entrepreneurs and executives. Her team of high-caliber Executive Assistants work part-time, from home, taking many tasks and projects off the plate of successful people, leaving them free to spend their time where they are needed most.

 

Gina has worked remotely for over 15 years on national and international teams. More recently, she has focused on the work-life balance, wellness, and personal satisfaction of busy professionals. She is known for developing leaders and having them rise up around her.

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