When someone on your team fails to perform, who is really accountable?

In this episode of LeadershipSOPs, Ed Tyson challenges leaders to stop treating accountability as something that begins after performance goes wrong. Instead, he introduces performance leadership, the upstream work required to successfully transfer responsibility from a leader to the person performing the work.

Using the discipline of military marching as a powerful analogy, Ed explains how clear expectations, communication, coordination, practice, and visibility create the conditions for accountability.

He breaks performance leadership into six critical areas: work description, assignment, planning, completion, evaluation, and remediation. Before blaming an employee for poor results, leaders must ask whether the work was clearly defined, assigned to the right person, properly planned, monitored, evaluated, and supported.

The key lesson is simple: before pointing out the window at your team, look in the mirror at your leadership systems. True accountability begins long before the work gets done.

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