How To Hold New Hires Accountable For Their Results

Accountability is a willingness to accept responsibility for your actions.

A high-functioning team requires that everyone exceeds a role’s expectations. If they can’t learn, succeed, and grow in a role, then the role isn’t for them. Everyone must be held accountable for their area of responsibility.

Accountability starts on day one.

Encourage team accountability.

Teams must accept and champion the company big objective.

It’s the one, big, hairy, scary thing the company is striving to achieve. The failure of one person affects everyone. The team holds each person accountable and doesn’t accept mediocrity, slopiness, or laziness in pursuit of their goals.

It’s essential to have a company big objective and productivity KPIs everyone is working towards.

Enable individual accountability standards.

New hires must be given autonomy to hold themselves accountable.

They should know what success looks like. A manager who hovers, breathing down the neck of her team, slobbering with fury as someone makes a mistake isn’t effective. People need room to execute.

New hires can keep themselves accountable with:

Key Performance Indicators: people need to see progress as a team or individual. They need to see how their daily activities are helping their team achieve the company’s big objective.

Quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs): team members need to prioritize what’s important and focus relentlessly on what matters the most.

Value Standards: the company must have a set of values they live and breathe. These are non-negotiable for everyone.

Weekly One-on-Ones: managers must have regular 1:1s to help new hires learn and grow while holding them accountable. Accountability should never be a surprise.

Attitude Matters: if someone has a bad attitude, they don’t belong on the team.

Set the standard; accountability is essential for all new hires.

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