FUNDAMENTALS OF ACCOUNTABLE LEADERSHIP

Build a culture of accountability. In a single day.

A highly interactive one-day program that is part strategy, part skill-building, part working session on your real organizational challenges. Executives and managers leave able to lead people away from blame and toward ownership, and with the tools to make it stick.

1-DAY PROGRAM

EXECUTIVES + MANAGERS

STRATEGY + WORKING SESSION

Schedule a conversation

FROM

Blame & finger-pointing

→

Ownership for solving problems

PROGRAM

Four movements, one working day, each built around hands-on activities, not slides.

MORNING 01 Positive Accountability

Lead people away from blame and finger-pointing and toward taking ownership for solving problems which is the foundation everything else in the day is built on.

AGENDA

✓ A definition of personal accountability that is positive, inspiring and humane

✓ The Positive Accountability Model

APPLICATION ACTIVITY

Asking Accountability-based questions for coaching yourself and others

MIDDAY 02 Organizational Accountability

Break down silos and build cross-functional accountability, which are the key to reducing wasted resources, improving quality, and earning customer loyalty.

AGENDA

✓ The five levels of organizational accountability

✓ The key to high performance: execution and proactive recovery

✓ Creating alignment for organizational priorities

✓ Accountable meetings that produce results

APPLICATION ACTIVITY

Improving cross-functional coordination and execution

AFTERNOON 03 Team Accountability

The strongest area of focus. Assess where the team stands, change the mindset and habits that hold performance back, then build the agreements that make accountability routine.

AGENDA

✓ An accountable process for leading change and achieving high performance

✓ Making Accountable Agreements

✓ Holding others accountable in a supportive manner

APPLICATION ACTIVITY

Improving cross-functional coordination and execution

CLOSE 04 Managing & Leading Change

Raise the bar on current standards of excellence, and give leaders a method for guiding people past the “wall of fear” that stops change from sticking.

AGENDA

✓ The “three zones of change” and creating an environment safe for change

✓ Overcoming the “Wall of Fear” that stops us from achieving our goals

APPLICATION ACTIVITIES

Creating a Personal Picture of Success

Action plan to increase accountable leadership

Why previous efforts stall

What every participant can do by the end of the day.

01 Apply diagnostic tools to assess personal, team and organizational accountability

03 Implement strategies for improving cross-functional coordination and execution

05 Hold others accountable in a supportive manner, ensuring learning, clear expectations and improvement

07 Lead and manage change with a repeatable process

02 Increase team accountability by applying the Positive Accountability Model

04 Establish accountable agreements and delegation

06 Increase trust and support, and resolve conflict

✓ Leave with a personal Picture of Success™ & an action plan

Who it's for

For leaders who need change and performance improvement in compressed time frames.

Executives building an accountable organizational culture from the top

Middle managers implementing change and performance improvement

Teams ready to move from blame and finger-pointing to shared ownership

YOUR GUIDE · MARK SAMUEL, FOUNDER OF B STATE®

Author of 7 books including Making Yourself Indispensable (Portfolio/Penguin). For 40+ years he has developed the proprietary accountability frameworks at the heart of this program, deployed across 200+ organizations in manufacturing, bio-pharma, healthcare, and technology.