Supervisory Development Content Library

The decisions you make when your employees exceed, meet, or do not meet expectations create standards for accountability. Accountability is not just negative or punitive. It can refer to positive consequences for employees who meet or exceed expectations, too. There are many things that get in our way when we try to foster a culture of accountability: assumptions or miscommunication, discomfort with difficult conversations, limited time, and fear. Learn how to address some of these when you’re creating standards for accountability.

Though core to supervision, driving results through your team can be daunting. Do you find yourself having trouble discerning between what is critical work and what is urgent? Are you looking for concrete steps on making a plan for your team? Need tools to keep your employees on track and accountable for the work being done? This module will help you pause, examine, and tweak your approach to driving results through your team.

Accountability means that there is a consequence (positive or negative) if a person takes or does not take an action.

These four skills are the most effective, especially when the audience is highly interested in the outcome. Combining these skills increases your chance of success.

Groundbreaking discoveries and research, educated students, successful alumni, quality clinical care, better community - these are the results of fulfilling the University’s mission of research, teaching and outreach. The steps described in this guide will allow you approach the work you supervise in a way that most meaningfully contributes to the University’s mission.

This worksheet will help you clarify and understand the purpose and most impactful work of the team you supervise. Fill out this worksheet in order to orient to results. After completing steps 1-4 you will be ready to plan for results.

Planning for results involves identifying all relevant steps, actions, and considerations needed in order to achieve meaningful, high-quality results.

What many student employees lack in professional experience, they make up in their willingness to learn and their enthusiasm for new projects. In this webinar, we’ll explore simple ways to mobilize students’ eagerness and guide them in their development as young professionals, while ensuring the work you need to finish is completed.

Your department’s goals cannot be achieved alone—it takes work from everyone. Giving orders and commands will only take you so far. To truly be effective you’ll have to gain buy-in from the members of your team, leaders, and peers through influence.

The purpose of this ActionSheet is to reinforce what you learn about accountability. This ActionSheet accompanies the live or recorded webinar, “The Art of Influence”. Print or take notes electronically.