CREATE CADENCE OF ACCOUNTABILITY
Daily stand up meeting help the team establish a cadence of accountability and communication. and it is difficult to have a successful team without the regular occur of both.
Dictionary.com defines cadence “the rhythm of events, especially the pattern in which something is experienced. Getting your team to in a continuous rhythm of accountability and communication helps establish reliability and dependable capacity and coordination amongst the team.
Published by FranklinCovey, The Four Disciplines of Execution research suggests that 81% of employees are not held accountable for regular progress toward the company goal. Accountability amongst teams is actually pretty rare, accounting the HBR article, The Best Teams Hold Themselves Accountable, if you want a high performing team peer-to-peer acceptability is a must.
By conducting daily Stand Up Meeting peer to peer accountability happens at each meeting as each team member accounts/reviews the following 3 questions:
- What did I do yesterday?
- What will I do today?
- Where am I struggling?
BY HOLDING THE MEETINGS AT THE SAME TIME AND SAME PLACE EVERYDAY, TEAMS QUICKLY REALIZE THAT THEY WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE DAILY FOR COMMITMENTS THEY MADE THE PRIOR DAY.
Teams without cadence:
- Unstructured and irregular team meetings
- Poor peer-to-peer communication
- Lack of synergy amongst team members
- Little or no peer-to-peer accountability