This is a YouTube video titled "Accountability is more than just consequences - Pt.2 Empathy #shorts #leadership" containing a leadership-focused talk or monologue recorded in March 2024. The speaker discusses the concept of accountability in leadership, emphasizing empathy over immediate consequences when deadlines are missed, and encourages leaders to change their approach to accountability.
Let's assume we get to the deadline and even though we followed up through the timeline, things still didn't happen the way we wanted them to. We can approach accountability with the idea of empathy. Hey, this thing didn't get done even though I was following up. We were following up to make sure that we were making progress. Are you okay? What happened? As opposed to immediately jumping in to the idea of consequences. The reason people are so afraid of accountability is that we relate it to consequences because of our reaction as leaders, because we focus on the deadline and not the timeline. And we approach it not with empathy, but immediately with consequences. If you're a leader, it's time to change that.
