Just as defensiveness is the great productivity killer, the right kind of accountability is the great productivity and innovation enhancer. In this episode, learn the secret of eliminating your old toxic defensive culture and building your new peak performance accountability culture.

Accountability done well is the flip side of defensiveness. Learn how to change your culture from one of defensiveness to one of productive, multi-dimensional and directional accountability. Shifting behavior from defensive to accountable will change your culture to one that encourages ownership, engagement, passion, and focus.

Defensiveness is a productive and innovation killer. Unfortunately, it's a natural response for humans that has been deeply ingrained in us over eons of time as a survival mechanism. But in a fast-paced and competitive landscape, the defensiveness we employ actually kills the organization that provides our security and our survival.

In this episode we talk about some ways to eliminate defensiveness from your organization.

A culture that builds psychological safety in the work place is critical if an organization is to reach peak performance. But safety is hard to create. We are all naturally wary of putting ourselves in a vulnerable position. But without vulnerability, friction hinders innovation and restricts progress.

In this episode we dive into the need for safety and how process, correctly structures, can help us get it.