 If
your organization is seriously committed to making
a positive change to its culture, there is one
place that it must absolutely begin if a true
and lasting cultural change is desired: PESONAL
ACCOUNTABILITY.
Without
a workplace that embraces personal accountability
your efforts to bring about meaningful cultural
change will be in vain.
Here's
why:
Most
human beings are naturally adverse to change -
especially when it comes to how they earn a living.
They simply don't like it. Change is scary and
full of uncertainty.
Without
first establishing a workforce that embraces and
exemplifies personal accountability, you will
continue to experience resistance to change and
hear questions like the following:
- "Why
do we have to go through all this change?"
- "When
will they tell us what is going on?"
- "Why
don't they communicate better?"
- "Why
is this happening to me?"
These questions almost always lead to the following
seven words that prevent meaningful cultural change:
WE'VE NEVER DONE IT THAT WAY BEFORE!
By
first starting your cultural change efforts with
a focus on personal accountability, your employees
will learn to accept and even embrace organizational
change by asking better questions of themselves
such as:
- "What
can I do to best adapt to this change?"
- "How
can I help my organization change for the better?"
- "What
can I do to better communicate with those around
me?"
Looking at the two sets of questions above it
should be easy to see the contrast between these
questions and how the first set resists change
while the second set of questions embraces positive
change. It is all a matter of your employee's
mindset towards change and starting with a personal
accountability training program will transform
your team's mindset to one that embraces change.
We
are all resistant to change to some degree or
another. How we react to change, however, is an
indication of our own level of personal accountability.
Those with a high degree of personal accountability
react and adapt to change far better than those
with a low degree of personal accountability by
asking themselves how they can best adapt to the
ever changing world around them.
If
your organization is about to embark on an organizational
or cultural change mission it is critical that
you begin with a focus on personal accountability.
Without Personal Accountability your team members
will continue to resist change and your efforts
will yield disappointing results.
Employees
are generally receptive to activities aimed at
increasing personal accountability as they are
non-threatening in nature and the benefits are
easy to see.
Click
here for a sample activity to get you started.
 We
recommend that organizations undergoing change
assist their efforts by purchasing John Miller's
landmark book - QBQ! The Question Behind the
Question. John's book will help your organization
eliminate the blame, procrastination, and victim
thinking that makes cultural change so difficult.
Click
here to order copies for your team.
For
those who are really serious about creating positive
and lasting change we also recommend a personal
accountability training workshop based on
John Miller's book - QBQ! This workshop
can be self-facilitated by someone in your organization
or by a trained Rainmaker Group associate and
will provide the foundation of personal accountability
that your organization needs to make cultural
change a reality.
Give
us a call at 1-866-988-7246 or
fill out our online request form
for more information about our QBQ! Personal Accountability
workshops.
Remember…
Personal accountability is the foundation upon
which all organizational change is built. It's
that simple.
Now go Maximize Possibility!
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