Lynne Curry - Managing For Accountability: A Business Leaders Toolbox

Managing for Accountability

Managing for Accountability

A Business Leaders Toolbox

Lynne Curry

Managing for Accountability: A Business Leaders Toolbox

Copyright Lynne Curry, 2022.

Cover design by Charlene Kronstedt

Interior design by Exeter Premedia Services Private Ltd., Chennai, India

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First published in 2021 by

Business Expert Press, LLC

222 East 46th Street, New York, NY 10017

www.businessexpertpress.com

ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-074-4 (paperback)

ISBN-13: 978-1-63742-075-1 (e-book)

Business Expert Press Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Collection

Collection ISSN: 1946-5637 (print)

Collection ISSN: 1946-5645 (electronic)

First edition: 2021

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To Ben Swann, the best son I could ever hope for.
To God, who is there with strength, comfort,
and wisdom in every part of my life.

Description

Written by a veteran management consultant, Managing for Accountability: A Business Leaders Toolbox, gives business owners and managers a toolbox containing everything they need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable employees who do what they say they will and who invest 100 percent effort into their jobs.

This book is perfect for those who want a roadmap detailing how to: choose exactly the right employee; set expectations for accountability as part of their company culture; inspire employees to own their jobs; effectively address problem behaviors that get in the way of maximum performance; retain their top talent; and create accountability in members of Gen X, Y, and Z. Each chapter provides useful, practical, field-tested strategies and solutions that can be immediately implemented.

Written for owners and managers who have little time to read, Managing for Accountability is chockful of useful tips and well organized to enable readers to return to specific chapters for a quick reference when they need an immediate tactic or actionable strategy.

The author, a nationally respected organizational consultant and executive coach, offers explicit guidelines for coaching employees to work their hardest to achieve breakthrough levels of performance, maintaining employee commitment at a high level, and bonding employees into high-performance teams united in achieving their employers business goals and creating an accountability culture.

Readers will find the real-life stories engrossing and the checklists and tools immediately actionable and will walk away knowing exactly how to inspire employees, how to maintain employee commitment at a high level, and how to create an accountability culture in their organization.

Keywords

accountability; productivity; results; employee performance; employee engagement; employee motivation; ownership; retention; employee commitment; buy-in; self-management; all in; discretionary effort

Contents

In Managing for Accountability, Lynne Curry effectively distills 40 years of experience counseling companies across the globe into a practical, step-by-step guide that helps any leader and organization create and sustain a culture of accountability. Curry provides real-life experiences and field-tested solutions to recruit, retain, and inspire high-performing teams. The strategies in Managing for Accountability are useful, simple, and put immediate results within every leaders reach. The book is as enjoyable to read as it is valuable.Mark D. Nelson, President and CEO, Bristol Bay Industrial, LLC

Managing for Accountability is a top choice in my library of recommended reads. Dr. Lynne Curry has assisted me, my partners, and employees through challenges for more than three decades. Shes helped us to work together professionally to achieve our potential, always focused on excellence. She has always been responsive, straightforward, and direct with her meaningful advice and counsel assisting me to develop and grow in leadership.Larry Cash, Founder and Chair of the Board, RIM Alaska, California, Guam, Hawaii

Managing for Accountabilitys author is brilliant, inspirational, creative, and brings a fresh and compassionate insight into the workplace. It is a comprehensive and well-written guidebook that every executive, manager, and supervisor will want on their desk. It promotes new ideas for improving employee performance, morale, and the bottom line while creating new cultures. I write this as a business leader with 35 plus years working in the resource and technology industry, government, and the nonprofit sector. This book is a necessary read for management and leaders to succeed in a changing business world, as well as creating future workplace cultures.Rebecca Parker, Executive Director of the Anchorage Senior Activity Center

In Managing for Accountability, Curry has assembled a collection of lessons learned from her decades of management experience, with lots of strategies and examples that can be applied on a daily basis. This book belongs in every managers toolbox!Roger Weese, President, Principal, RSA Engineering, Inc.

Lynne Curry writes about a topic she has lived with, taught on, and written about every day for many years. In her trainings, I have experienced the depth of her understanding when it comes to people and their relationships to their work. The advice column she produces rivals Dear Abby, except that they are aimed directly at the workplace and how to improve the work environment. Mike Coumbe, Deputy Director, Alaska Conservation Foundation

Ive been following Lynne Currys superb work as a successful management consultant and coach for over 25 years. Currys conversational and fast-paced writing style is wonderfully matched with her many pages of important principles for effectively inspiring employees to work harder and as a team fully united toward a common goal.Larry Wood, attorney and mediator

Managing for Accountability: A Business Leaders Toolbox is a must have for every leader seeking to inspire stellar performance from every employee. Accountability is made, not born and is created, ignited, and fueled by your actions as a leader. Lynne Curry has taken her four decades of human resources expertise and loaded this book with tools for optimizing employees commitment. This is a must read!Gail Forrest, Senior Human Resources Consultant at Tandem HR

Lynne Curry is both an expert in her field and a professional with a knack for breaking challenges down and giving readers roadmaps to help them through difficulties. Managing for Accountability is loaded with valuable information and guidance for becoming a better leader.Millie Johnson, Vice President of Shareholder Development at Chugach Alaska Corporation, a company with more than 5,000 employees

Lynne Currys new book drills down to the core of profit, management, and organizational leadership via the relationship between accountability and leadership. The book is a terrific explanation of what accountability means to an organization and its relationship to profit and leadership.