Accountability matters
John Espirian
Relentlessly helpful® LinkedIn® nerd, trainer & speaker. Creator of Espresso+ community & UpLift Live conference. Not a douche canoe 🛶
Nothing gets done without a deadline so I've started a new category of monthly calls within the Espresso+ community, called Sales & Accountability.
On these Zoom calls, our small business owners share the sales approaches that are working for them (non-douche canoe methods only) and they commit to tasks to work on over the coming month.
We hold each other accountable, and I set reminders to follow up with each person.
The best part is that I get to visit my destructive vengeance on anyone who misses a deadline, with a side order of chaos for those who have only a weak grasp on sarcasm.
(OK, I joke … but I was once in an accountability group where people were far too nice. Nothing got done – a waste of everyone's time.)
I'm sharing anonymised examples here to show what we committed to on the Espresso+ Sales & Accountability call for the month of October 2023. (If you spot yourself here and wish to "decloak", be my guest.)
Espressian A
3 hours each Monday morning on strategic business planning.
Accountability partnering with another Espressian.
Espressian B
Send 2 cold emails to companies each week.
Espressian C
Pick a date for next webinar.
Espressians D & E
Create video course outline.
Espressian F
Update website.
Work on corporate sponsorship deals.
John Espirian (no anonymity needed!)
Share at least 2 more chapters of the Relentlessly Helpful® book with Espressians.
Recommended by LinkedIn
Espressian G
Restructure website and LinkedIn profile.
Espressian H
Set up Google Analytics 4.
Espressian I
Register for PayHere.
Add work samples to website.
Not all Espressians can make our live calls, so everything is recorded, captioned and transcribed, and there are video and audio versions of the content – so we're really covering all the bases.
(These Sales & Accountability calls are 🟥 red in our Showcase library, as I've used up all my main brand colours for the other categories of content.)
How do YOU stay accountable?
Wherever your safe space is online, find some people to help you stay accountable on the tasks that will move your business forward.
You don't need a paid community to do this but you do need at least one other person you can trust who will actually hold you to account.
clear goals + deadlines + accountability = stuff gets done
Obligatory call to action
Join Espresso+ at £410/year or £41/month.
Membership also saves you a £110 on a ticket to the UpLift Live conference when booked by the end of October.
Holler if you want to know more about membership or conference.
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1yRaising hand 🙋🏻♀️ as Espressian D (or maybe I'm E). I personally need the accountability to pick up the pace with my some of my goals John Espirian. Simply can't stand continuing to pay the bill each month for an online course software I'm not using! (Wondering if I'm the only one out there that pays for programs they aren't using? 😰)
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1yEspecially when you send email threating salt in coffee if I don't do what I said 🤣
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1ySmart addition John to an incredible group. Go Grand, Never Bland, Brand to Land & #KeepRockingLinkedIn! Kevin On a Mission to Eliminate Organizational & Personal Blanding™
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1yI’ve just looked up Douch Canoe, “an obnoxious or contemptible person.” Phew. Think I’m ok…..
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1yI would even go further and say accountability is so important that it’s almost everything. Things get done if you have an accountability partner. You can find most of the stuff that career coaches talk about online, but the holding yourself accountable for your goals is what makes you thrive and gets results. We don’t have to do everything alone.