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Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader's Toolbox
Written by a veteran management consultant, Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox gives business owners and managers a toolbox containing everything they need to hire, inspire, manage, and retain accountable employees that 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 exactly 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 them 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 employer’s 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.
This book is perfect for those who want a roadmap detailing exactly 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 them 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 employer’s 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.
182 pages, Paperback
Published July 22, 2021
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Lynne Curry
6 books80 followersHi, if you would like 700 interesting posts on writing, personal and professional development, career and other topics, you might find my two blogs valuable to you.
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.
I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.
The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.
I was eight when the newspaper surrendered and published my first poem. I was hooked!
Before and after college I dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. I sent my poems and one awful play to every publication I could find. The desire to eat convinced me to get a day job and to go to college, though I used that play to substitute for a formal college application. They gave me a full-tuition scholarship, no doubt for chutzpah.
I still loved newspapers and reading Ann Landers, Amy Van Buren and Mike Royko’s columns convinced me I could write an advice column. I wanted to change the world and was convinced that words were a powerful way to do that.
“The Workplace” started in the Anchorage Times, then was picked up by the Anchorage Daily News, the Tri-city Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Morris Daily Herald and a small Vancouver-based syndicate. Although it started out a narrative column, after six weeks in the ADN, the editor called me and said there was a packet of mail waiting for me. Readers liked the column and had written me questions, which created the current “dear Abby of the workplace” approach. The best of these columns are published in Won By One and Solutions, still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Along the way, I wrote Managing Equally and Legally, McFarland, 1990 and 200 articles for a wide variety of business, trade, women and teen magazines.
Fiction still tugs at me. I’m a third of the way through a novel on internet dating scams, have written two short stories and had a memoir published in Anchorage Remembers.
On July 17, 2014, I wrote a one page query for Beating the Workplace Bully and sent it to 7 agents. One wrote back within the day and two others within the week. All three liked the proposal I wrote and I went with the agent who first wrote me; within six weeks we had offers from six publishers and AMACOM is releasing the book in January of 2016; Brilliance Audio has the audio rights.
What do I need now? Readers:)
One is Lynnecurryauthor.com and the other is workplacecoachblog.com.
I started writing when I learned what words meant. It was a raisin bran cereal box that did it. Even though I read backwards (I was dyslexic), I was stunned to learn that people could communicate with others even without being physically present.
The newspapers became a candy land of writing -- there was so much there and I wanted to be in them. Despite being died-in-the-wool shy, I started carrying my poems to my town’s newspaper office and leaving them in their mail slot.
I was eight when the newspaper surrendered and published my first poem. I was hooked!
Before and after college I dreamed of becoming a full-time writer. I sent my poems and one awful play to every publication I could find. The desire to eat convinced me to get a day job and to go to college, though I used that play to substitute for a formal college application. They gave me a full-tuition scholarship, no doubt for chutzpah.
I still loved newspapers and reading Ann Landers, Amy Van Buren and Mike Royko’s columns convinced me I could write an advice column. I wanted to change the world and was convinced that words were a powerful way to do that.
“The Workplace” started in the Anchorage Times, then was picked up by the Anchorage Daily News, the Tri-city Herald, the St. Petersburg Times, the Morris Daily Herald and a small Vancouver-based syndicate. Although it started out a narrative column, after six weeks in the ADN, the editor called me and said there was a packet of mail waiting for me. Readers liked the column and had written me questions, which created the current “dear Abby of the workplace” approach. The best of these columns are published in Won By One and Solutions, still available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
Along the way, I wrote Managing Equally and Legally, McFarland, 1990 and 200 articles for a wide variety of business, trade, women and teen magazines.
Fiction still tugs at me. I’m a third of the way through a novel on internet dating scams, have written two short stories and had a memoir published in Anchorage Remembers.
On July 17, 2014, I wrote a one page query for Beating the Workplace Bully and sent it to 7 agents. One wrote back within the day and two others within the week. All three liked the proposal I wrote and I went with the agent who first wrote me; within six weeks we had offers from six publishers and AMACOM is releasing the book in January of 2016; Brilliance Audio has the audio rights.
What do I need now? Readers:)
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July 16, 2021
Managing for Accountability is a brilliant distillation of the process of recruiting, hiring, developing, and managing a culture of accountability in the workforce for leaders at companies large and small. Lynne Curry uses her years of experience as an HR practitioner to offer advice and rare insights into the much-overlooked issue of developing synergistic teams who are accountable to themselves and their coworkers. This is an essential book for business leaders across the board.
July 13, 2021
Wish I’d had this terrific resource years earlier!
As a former business owner, as well as a friend/parent of entrepreneurs managing multiple employees, I regularly brainstorm with others for ways to improve employee hiring practices, motivation, and teamwork. When I learned about Lynne Curry’s Managing for Accountability, I devoured the wisdom in its pages. With a lifetime of experience problem-solving and facilitating success in her own business and in those of countless others, Dr. Curry has seen it all, understands what’s needed for consummate teamwork, and knows how to guide business owners to achieve it.
I wish I’d had this book years ago, when I was hiring for my own business. What a treasure chest of practical insight!
As a former business owner, as well as a friend/parent of entrepreneurs managing multiple employees, I regularly brainstorm with others for ways to improve employee hiring practices, motivation, and teamwork. When I learned about Lynne Curry’s Managing for Accountability, I devoured the wisdom in its pages. With a lifetime of experience problem-solving and facilitating success in her own business and in those of countless others, Dr. Curry has seen it all, understands what’s needed for consummate teamwork, and knows how to guide business owners to achieve it.
I wish I’d had this book years ago, when I was hiring for my own business. What a treasure chest of practical insight!
October 22, 2021
Lynne Curry is an internationally known expert on human resources and executive management who has established and run several successful companies. In addition to writing a widely read newspaper column since the 1970’s, Lynne also pens a highly popular blog that reaches thousands of readers and is the author of several popular books including “Beating the Workplace Bully.” Her most recent effort is “Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox.” This book addresses some of the most serious and complex challenges employers and employees face in the workplace before, during, and probably after, the Covid-19 pandemic.
As someone who has run a large internationally-known company, advised countless corporations on how to handle HR issues and reinvented herself many times over, Lynne has a unique understanding of the importance of holding oneself responsible in the workplace. Even more, she has the ability to inspire accountability in others from entry level workers to C-suite leaders.
She examines this topic by presenting realistic situations that managers face every day and suggests practical tactics and tools to resolve them. The solutions presented by Curry enable supervisors to turn exercises in “managing” into “mentoring” opportunities. She also presents approaches to contemporary problems that demonstrate a straight-forward yet nuanced handling of HR issues. And all of this information is conveyed with clarity, wit, integrity, and a personal style that involves readers as it informs them.
Want to become a super manager? Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox should definitely be on your “must own” as well as your “must read” list. Highly recommended!
As someone who has run a large internationally-known company, advised countless corporations on how to handle HR issues and reinvented herself many times over, Lynne has a unique understanding of the importance of holding oneself responsible in the workplace. Even more, she has the ability to inspire accountability in others from entry level workers to C-suite leaders.
She examines this topic by presenting realistic situations that managers face every day and suggests practical tactics and tools to resolve them. The solutions presented by Curry enable supervisors to turn exercises in “managing” into “mentoring” opportunities. She also presents approaches to contemporary problems that demonstrate a straight-forward yet nuanced handling of HR issues. And all of this information is conveyed with clarity, wit, integrity, and a personal style that involves readers as it informs them.
Want to become a super manager? Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox should definitely be on your “must own” as well as your “must read” list. Highly recommended!
November 1, 2021
Since 1998, I have been researching the ingredients for spectacular success. My definition of spectacular success is this: the unforeseen success other people intentionally create for you because you intentionally create success for them. I identified 26 situational, organizational, financial, emotional, and relationship ingredients.
All of the spectacular successes around the world use these ingredients, including the Children’s Holocaust Memorial, the movie Dirty Dancing, Martha Stewart, the Polish Solidarity movement, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Toastmasters, Toyota, the Underground Railroad, the world’s largest trivia contest, and Navy commander, author, and speaker D. Michael Abrashoff.
But you don’t have to know the ingredients to know this: 23 of the 26 ingredients focus on working with others and satisfying others.
Lynne Curry’s Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox is a step by step guide for working with others and satisfying others. Use her tools and unforeseen success will follow. Chapter 4 is a particularly rich gold mine for working with others and satisfying others. Later chapters provide more gold. Her tools provide ways for you to intentionally create success for employees (using Lynne's definition of employees), giving them reasons to create unforeseen success for your business. You’ll get the accountability success you want plus more business success than you could ever see coming.
All of the spectacular successes around the world use these ingredients, including the Children’s Holocaust Memorial, the movie Dirty Dancing, Martha Stewart, the Polish Solidarity movement, Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, Toastmasters, Toyota, the Underground Railroad, the world’s largest trivia contest, and Navy commander, author, and speaker D. Michael Abrashoff.
But you don’t have to know the ingredients to know this: 23 of the 26 ingredients focus on working with others and satisfying others.
Lynne Curry’s Managing for Accountability: A Business Leader’s Toolbox is a step by step guide for working with others and satisfying others. Use her tools and unforeseen success will follow. Chapter 4 is a particularly rich gold mine for working with others and satisfying others. Later chapters provide more gold. Her tools provide ways for you to intentionally create success for employees (using Lynne's definition of employees), giving them reasons to create unforeseen success for your business. You’ll get the accountability success you want plus more business success than you could ever see coming.
November 9, 2022
I’ve known Lynne Curry for 20 or more years. She assisted a company I worked long-term for in a multitude of levels, and all management took human resources classes from her. She doesn’t speak in complex language, shows instead of tells, and demonstrates her management expertise in a variety of levels with worldwide clients.
Her book “Managing for Accountability” once again proves she is the go-to person to help businesses thrive and prosper. Every employer could benefit, especially those wanting to grow their companies, retain employee commitment and job satisfaction, and upgrade their culture to one that openly communicates on all levels.
Her goal is to teach you – business leaders – how to get 100 percent value out of your payroll dollars while keeping employees engaged, encouraging their growth as well as yours, and ensuring employees group to your businesses’ goals, mission, and vision.
She goes over many tools, skillsets, and solutions to make this happen, such as teaching leaders to manage for accountability, and hire and retain employees who want to give their all. These employees are ones that step up and perform at their highest levels and don’t say, “not my job.”
She truly is a visionary leader, and her books show this. “Managing for Accountability,” is a must-read for those who need help or hope to enrich their corporate or business cultures.
Debbie Cutler – Former Managing Editor, Alaska Business
Her book “Managing for Accountability” once again proves she is the go-to person to help businesses thrive and prosper. Every employer could benefit, especially those wanting to grow their companies, retain employee commitment and job satisfaction, and upgrade their culture to one that openly communicates on all levels.
Her goal is to teach you – business leaders – how to get 100 percent value out of your payroll dollars while keeping employees engaged, encouraging their growth as well as yours, and ensuring employees group to your businesses’ goals, mission, and vision.
She goes over many tools, skillsets, and solutions to make this happen, such as teaching leaders to manage for accountability, and hire and retain employees who want to give their all. These employees are ones that step up and perform at their highest levels and don’t say, “not my job.”
She truly is a visionary leader, and her books show this. “Managing for Accountability,” is a must-read for those who need help or hope to enrich their corporate or business cultures.
Debbie Cutler – Former Managing Editor, Alaska Business
October 10, 2022
Navigating Conflict: Tools for Tough, Touchy Situations and Conversations” is a must-read for anyone in a leadership role. The story-based format is founded on real-life examples and draws from Lynne Curry’s four decades of experience. I nodded in agreement and related to similar situations I had experienced. I wished I had the information in this book to help navigate those past conflicts. Dr. Curry actively engages the reader at each step by asking probing questions and providing exercises that the reader can immediately use at home or in the workplace. In addition, Dr. Curry conveys to the reader complex concepts with ease, such as building the necessary skills needed when faced with criticism challenges. “I had already started building my toolkit from just the first few pages.”
October 5, 2021
Managing for Accountability, provides readers, leaders and researchers with relevant methods and approaches that can be applied to engage teams in the workplace, improve workplace culture and improve organizational outcomes. The key points and theme throughout Dr. Curry’s book is effective leadership. Dr. Curry contextualizes the steps organizations and leaders can take to not only create an accountable work culture, but also steps that will move engagement along the pendulum in a positive one-directional path. I really enjoyed this literature, given Dr. Curry’s knowledge, experience and competence in the field. This is a must read for scholars, leaders and self-development gurus. Love the principles!
Demi Gray, PhDc, MHRM, EQ-i
Demi Gray, PhDc, MHRM, EQ-i
September 29, 2021
I’m so impressed with this book! It’s an easy, engaging read full of actionable tips, tools, and strategies to foster a healthy workforce.
I was a leader in the employee development department for a large community college and employee engagement and accountability were the biggest challenges we faced. Oh how I would have liked to have this in my toolbox then!
From hiring, to training, to team building, to employee retention, this books covers all the critical aspects to creating a strong, healthy team, and the good news is it’s an enjoyable read with checklists, questions, and exercises you can put into practice immediately to see positive results.
I highly recommend!
I was a leader in the employee development department for a large community college and employee engagement and accountability were the biggest challenges we faced. Oh how I would have liked to have this in my toolbox then!
From hiring, to training, to team building, to employee retention, this books covers all the critical aspects to creating a strong, healthy team, and the good news is it’s an enjoyable read with checklists, questions, and exercises you can put into practice immediately to see positive results.
I highly recommend!
July 6, 2023
A good friend and former Athletic Director for a metropolitan school district once told me, "I don't fire bad coaches as much as I fire the people who hired them in the first place." Managing for Accountability puts the responsibility directly in your hands (where it belongs) but provides all the information and tools you need to hire and manage diverse personality types successfully...all with the goal of having employees who are "all in, all the time." I don't believe in "gurus" but if Lynne Curry was sitting on a mountaintop, I would make the climb and ask her a thousand questions.
August 27, 2021
A must read for every leader. Dr. Lynne Curry provides proven strategies to guarantee your team members are fully vested and committed to your organization’s success. It provides actionable advice for virtually every situation that business leaders face on a daily basis. A definite too that every leader -CEO, supervisor,manager - needs in their toolbox.
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November 16, 2022The pandemic made it clear that much needed to change—workplace issues we’d been papering over—the lack of accountability, integrity, and trust. The importance of accountability is huge—accountable leaders and employees demonstrate ownership and take responsibility for results.
Accountability doesn’t by chance, but when individuals choose it, nothing stops them. Accountability can be a game changer for you or your organization. Accountability offers a concrete reality that aligns with integrity, forms a foundation for trust, and powers results. Knowing that led me to write Managing for Accountability: A leader’s toolbox which offers all the tools to create a new and better normal. Twenty-three readers to date have given Managing for Accountability 5-star reviews. If you'd like a free sneak peek with a sample chapter, please let me know or you can find it on www.workplacecoachblog.com. Also, I'd LOVE to know what you think of this favorite book of mine. Thanks!
Accountability doesn’t by chance, but when individuals choose it, nothing stops them. Accountability can be a game changer for you or your organization. Accountability offers a concrete reality that aligns with integrity, forms a foundation for trust, and powers results. Knowing that led me to write Managing for Accountability: A leader’s toolbox which offers all the tools to create a new and better normal. Twenty-three readers to date have given Managing for Accountability 5-star reviews. If you'd like a free sneak peek with a sample chapter, please let me know or you can find it on www.workplacecoachblog.com. Also, I'd LOVE to know what you think of this favorite book of mine. Thanks!
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