Leo Bottary explains accountability in high-performing peer groups: members look each other in the eye and commit to showing up prepared and engaged. It's not answering to a leader but mutual responsibility, reinforced by example. When someone needs the group's support for an action item, accountability helps everyone improve.
Hi, this is Leo Buttari with the What Anyone Can Do Minute. You know, as we've been exploring the 5 factors that are common to high-performing peer groups, today I'd like to talk about factor number 4, which is culture of accountability. Now, to be clear, I'm not talking about accountability of members to the leader of a group. I'm talking about accountability as it relates to members and how they are with one another, right? That they look one another in the eye essentially and say, look, I'm going to be at the meeting. I'm gonna be prepared, I'm gonna be engaged, and essentially I'm gonna bring my A-game. And every one of them promises one another that, and they essentially hold one another accountable largely through the power of their example. So it isn't so much someone holding me accountable as much as I know that I need to step up and accept personal responsibility for the role I play in this group because everyone else is gonna do it as well. It's also essential that if I decide that there's an action item I want to move forward, I often may need the support of the group to help me move in that direction. So when we are accountable to one another, we only get that much better.
