Channel Eye has joined forces with Royston Guest, leading Business Growth Coach and CEO/Founder of Pathways Global, in our series, ‘Ask the Business Coach’.
When something goes wrong, where do you look first? At the market? Your people? Your customers? Your competitors? The economy? Or in the mirror?
Over more than three decades of working with business owners, entrepreneurs and leaders, I’ve repeatedly seen one quality in high performers. They own it. They own their choices, actions and results. When things don’t go to plan, they don’t waste energy looking for someone or something to blame. They ask: What can I do about it?
That’s accountability, and it’s our first clue to being Wired for Success. Now, there’s an important distinction.
Three key takeaways
- Taking ownership is not the same as doing everything yourself.
- Own it. Act.
- Enable your people with the mindset, skillset and toolset to deliver on what is expected of them.
Episode timestamps
- [1.00] The mark of a great leader is someone who takes the pressure and owns it when things aren’t going right, but gives credit where credit is due when things are going well.
- [1.41] Dependency is not the same as accountability. You’ll never build a business if it’s built on dependency.
- [4.43] Empowerment without enablement is an abdication of responsibility. Empowerment through enablement is where you’ll create a culture of
ownership. You can’t hold someone to account if you haven’t first enabled them to deliver as you expect. - [7.35] Our next clue in the A -Z series of Are You Wired for Success is B = Balcony Time.
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