Course description

Learn how to create an environment of delivering robust results by fostering individual and team accountability and commitment for your organization as evidenced by trust and team collaboration. Using the Accountability Model in The Oz Principle by Craig Hickman, Roger Connors, and Tom Smith and their sequel, How Did That Happen, you will understand how to hold yourself and others accountable without the often-negative ramifications associated with ownership.

This one-day interactive workshop employs a variety of individual, paired, and group activities, allowing for time to practice concepts.

Who should attend

Individuals who will benefit from this course include executives, managers, leaders, and emerging leaders who want to hone their current leadership style in order to increase their effectiveness and influence within their organizations and develop more accountability throughout the organization.

What you will achieve

• Describe the foundational elements of accountability.
• Distinguishing between delivering acceptable results versus innovation and robustness.
• Explore the fundamentals of innovation and critical support elements.
• Identify various techniques of fostering accountability and innovation in self, a team, and an organization.

What you will learn

Course Outline

Module 1: Assertive Leader

• Exercise: Defining Accountability
• Accountability Model
• Exercise: Analyze the Model Relative to Global Current Events and Experiences
• Exercise: Applying Model to Individual
• Exercise: Apply Model to Team, Organization
• Putting into Practice: Creating Ownership

Module 2: Delivering Results of Value

• Exercise: Assessing Performance of Individual and Team
• How Our Mind Works — Neuroscience
• What Motivates Us
• Idea Production — How It Works
• Innovative Thinking
• 5-Step Idea Creation Process
Putting into Practice: Identify Useful Components for Own Work Environment

Module 3: Put into Practice

• Exercise: Call to Action — What I Will Do Differently Tomorrow