Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace: Unlocking the Brain's Secrets to Employee Engagement, Accountability, and Results

by Elaina Noell

We all know it. Demanding accountability in the workplace is the quickest way to get your employees to start fidgeting nervously and looking at the door.

Traditional accountability methods leave leaders frustrated with limited, ineffective tools and leave employees feeling criticized, discouraged, and even disengaged.

Using a foundation of neuroscience and human dynamics, Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace brings a much-needed modern approach to inspiring employee engagement, productivity, and results.

Packed with a robust toolset, this definitive guide provides practical tools and brain-based strategies to improve leaders’ ease, ability, and effectiveness at cultivating the very best from their teams. 

You’ll learn how to hold employees accountable while maintaining engagement, receptiveness, resourcefulness, including how

Use the Results Model to have productive accountability conversationsAdopt Possibility Thinking, asking “what’s in the way” and “what’s possible”Set clear expectations (accountability anchors)Revisit expectations to activate accountabilityLeverage the brain’s secrets to employee engagement with the Engagement and Experience LoopInfuse neurochemicals and fulfill foundational workplace needs to improve engagement, receptiveness and resourcefulnessProvide effective acknowledgement and rewardsInspire employees to have clarity, confidence, optimism to maximize resultsAsk questions that inspire engagement, accountability and developmentAvoid employees getting triggered, which reduces their ability to contributeAvoid anxious effort and keep employees in active effort “Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace will have you moving past problems to possibilities. The generous amount of concrete leadership tools available in this book will work for companies of every size, and you will find yourself returning to this resource often.

This book will change the way you lead, change the way your employees think, and clear the pathway to getting better and better results.” 

-Rose Souders, CEO and Founder, Potluck Consulting

Genres: Leadership

346 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 25, 2019

About the author

Elaina Noell is the founder and principal of Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace, revealing how the traditional accountability we've all learned can transform into a more effective tool while honoring what makes us human.

Creating a neuroscience-based model and mindset to make accountability doable (because if it doesn't feel doable, it doesn't get done), Elaina has pioneered a win-win accountability approach that leaders and employees have been hoping to experience.

Elaina is also a certified Master Neuro-Linguistic Programming practitioner. Her experience in facilitating how the subconscious must support conscious change deeply informs her work with inspiring accountability.

Elaina's second book, "Inspiring Accountability in the Workplace," and her podcast, "It's Hard to be a Leader," contain her best tools and resources to unlock the brain's secrets to inspiring employee engagement, accountability, and results.

Based in San Francisco, California, Elaina is committed to empowering every human with Inspiring Accountability to make the workplace and the world a better place.

Reviews

[Diane Law · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for work purposes.

Excellent model with a lot of examples and practical applications.
Like many business books however, it can be repetitive and I feel could have been shorter.

[Mayrim Millan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Listened to this book. Biggest takeaways: it takes a village and that village, includes the employee. It all goes back to brain science. Open ended questions any day. Culture changes take time.

[Cedric Nash · Rating 4 out of 5]

Elaina Noell lays out instruments that will allow better management and ways to help the people leaders work with being successful. I will use this book over and over to improve the way I hold teachers accountable, talk with and hold conversations, and inspire teachers to be engaged and engaging in their profession.

[Sasha Black · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tons of great resources and tips. It's long (340 pages) but a great reference book for best practices for accountability and engaging employees in their work and progress. I now use the CLEAR Results Model as much as I can when having accountability conversations! The content easily applies to leadership and my personal life.

[Josh · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good ideas for engaging employees and meeting them where they need to be met most: Feeling important.