Accountability Partnership: A Movement Among Entrepreneurs - 7 Reasons Why

As an employee, there are several systems put in place by your employer to keep you accountable,  weekly meetings with your manager, quarterly reviews, 360-degree feedback from your clients,  peer reviews, all created to ensure that you are performing your job to the best of your ability.  Now that you are self-employed, you are the entrepreneur, what systems have you put in place to ensure that you are performing your job to the best of your abiltiy?  Accountability Partnership  is a movement among entrepreneurs to self- regulate by holding each other accountable for achieving goals.  

An accountability partner is someone who can help you stay on track toward reaching your goals and creating a life and business by design rather than default.  Mastermind groups like our monthly, MACsMASTERs™  calls, are a powerful resource where  business owners are held accountable for achieving goals.  I cannot say enough how this can help to improve your business. 

Here are 7 reasons to get an accountability partner or join a mastermind group:

1. Increase focus and productivity - Having an accountability partner you can see efforts double; a higher amount of work gets done, in less time.  You can attain your Goals  faster.
2. Experience Less procrastination and Less excuses - Working with an Accountability partner means that you are held accountable for your actions and would less likely want to disappoint or disregard your partners time and so you are more likely to follow through when you know someone else is counting on you. 
3. Access a wider array of skills at your disposal - A good accountability partnership will consist of two (or more) individuals competent in a variety of skill-sets your business now has access to.  
4. Gain Moral support and reduce Overwhelm - Feeling Overwhelmed is a very common aspect for emerging entrepreneurs, especially when being forced to learn new skills and presented with such a high (initial) work load.  A supportive, assertive and encouraging accountability partner can really help prevent this condition and provide you with moral support.
5. More Vision and fresh ideas -  VISION and innovative ideas are a recipe for success. If you have ever been a part of a "brainstorming" session  you understand the power of the process.  Two heads are better than one, and an accountability partner can bring a whole new scope of vision and fresh ideas to the table.  A good accountability partnership will feed off each other’s ideas on how to take your endeavors to the next level.
6. Gain more balance - Because staying in tune with your overall vision is a significant part of a great accountability partnership, you are not allowed to get very far out of balance.  Staying on task and achieving goals is the object of the partnership. 
7. Higher  Quality! -  An accountability partner will inevitably improve the quality of work your business produces. An extra pair of eyes, more ideas and an extra pair of hands will ensure the quality in production is of a higher standard and more polished.

There are many untold benefits of having an accountability partner.  If you value the relationship and honor your commitment to it,  it can be the single greatest asset for your business.
 
Do you have an accountability partner?  How has it helped you?