Accountability: Taking Ownership of Your Responsibility

Team Accountability

Teams often provide the perfect opportunity to understand accountability. In true teams—those consisting of highly interdependent, differentiated individuals working on complex tasks—group accountability is required if the team is to accomplish its goals. Teammates must trust that fellow members are performing their portion of the team task. Everyone must know the impact and consequences of poor performance on the team’s output. Members of true teams feel accountable for the entire body of work of the team—not just their portion of the output—because communication and feedback mechanisms make everyone aware of the progress ...