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To Zack and Nick, my heroes.
Mike Evans has developed a unique perspective from working alongside a star‐studded list of world‐renowned thought leaders, including Dr. John Kotter, Dr. Stephen Covey, Tom Peters, Jim Kouzes, Hyrum Smith, Steve Farber, and Chris McChesney.
Mike served in senior leadership and consulting roles with Kotter International, FranklinCovey, and Tom Peters Company.
In addition to unleashing personal and organizational accountability, clients rely upon Mike's solutions to Accelerate Change, Shape Their Optimal Culture, Flawlessly Execute Key Strategies, Ignite Leadership Capacity at All Levels, and Amplify Employee Engagement.
He consults with senior teams, facilitates custom workshops, delivers keynote speeches, and provides coaching and consulting on all of these subject areas.
Mike has worked with organizations in virtually every arena, from the tech sector to financial services, manufacturing, health care, hospitality, entertainment, retail, and the US government. Clients include: Intel, Capital One, Apple, BP, BNY Mellon, Pfizer, The United States Navy, Fidelity Investments, Johnson & Johnson, Symantec, Cigna Corporation, Oracle, Astra Zeneca, Baxter International Inc., Shell Oil, Cargill, American Airlines, DuPont USA, and NASA.
His personal mission is to help individuals, teams, and organizations accelerate their ability to achieve more than they ever believed possible. Clients describe him as inspiring, motivating, and a ball of energy with an unequaled focus and passion for helping them achieve their desired results.
Reach Mike at: www.questmarkcompany.com or mike.evans@questmarkcompany.com
There is a reason that “accountability” continues to top the critical needs list of most organizational leaders. These leaders are keenly aware that accountability is the essential ingredient that allows individuals, teams, and organizations to soar and leave the competition in their wake.
Accountability helps individuals, teams, and organizations
If you are interested in creating a highly accountable team or organization, Mike and QuestMark offer the following options and solutions:
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Accountability continues to be a topic high on the list of interests of executives and organizational leaders. What we find more interesting is that accountability is just as high on the list of what employees want from their peers. Everyone wants more!
Accountability is the catalyst to accelerated change, robust employee engagement, intensified ownership, relentless perseverance, impeccable alignment, and it propels individuals, teams, and organizations to intoxicating heights of achievement and success.
Accountability crumbles silos, boosts teamwork and collaboration, strengthens camaraderie, creativity, resiliency, agility, trust, and communication.
Achieve with Accountability presents a recipe for awakening the belief, resolve, confidence, perseverance, determination, can‐do mindset, whatever‐it‐takes attitude, esprit de corps, drive, and creativity to achieve what matters most to individuals, teams, and organizations. Discover how to transform accountability into a positive, engaging, and forward‐looking experience that will secure your position in the new world of work. Learn how to kick‐start a revolution to achieve what matters most.
We are in a brawl with few rules, where the fast, flexible, and agile will eat and spit out the slow, over‐thinking, and complacent. In the past, change was episodic, transient, and gradual; now, change is constant as business, technology, and society itself continue to evolve at an ever more rapid pace. Individuals, teams, and organizations that fail to adapt will find themselves vulnerable, uncomfortable, and at the mercy of other people, events, or the competition.
With the world coming at you fast and furious every day, it is easy to feel like you have lost control of your life, your team, or your organization. By choosing to take and lead accountability, you reclaim control and are able to direct your own destiny, as well as the fate of your team or organization. Accountability is a current that feeds into the slipstream of success. Your performance, your decisions, and your results are all within your control; when you operate from that premise, magic happens. You deliver like never before because you are personally invested in the outcome. Achieve with Accountability shows you how to nourish that can‐do mindset so that you can start achieving what matters most. Accountability helps individuals, teams, and organizations
Individuals, teams, and organizations that are mired in the blame‐game, self‐pity, excuse‐making, cynicism, complacency, and apathy, and that lack alignment, engagement, and ownership to achieve what matters most, are in jeopardy. When you relinquish accountability, you place your future in the hands of fate. It is only by taking accountability and ownership for our circumstances that we can achieve what matters most. Today is the day to start owning your situation and take control—to orchestrate and realize the future you want.
Start believing in you, your team, and your organization. Embrace the accountability fundamentals that have helped individuals, teams, and organizations for years to achieve and reach beyond what they had believed was possible. The race is about to begin. Don't miss the starting gun while wallowing in the blame‐game.
There are myriad reasons individuals, teams, and organizations crave more accountability. Some that are listed below may strike close to home. What would you add to the list? What realities are you, your team, or organization faced with right now that heightened levels of accountability would be the ideal prescription?
Increased Competition | Commoditization |
New Technologies | Increased Shareholder Demand |
Pressure to Innovate | Shrinking Margins |
Globalization | Talent Wars |
Economic Downturns | Penetrating New Markets |
Nonstop Change | Doing More with Less |
Regulations/Legislation | Expansion |
Brand/Reputation Management | Political Uncertainty |
For many of the reasons cited above, Beth and her leadership team of nine were always looking for a competitive advantage. So the opportunity to attend a forum with a world‐renown authority was a no‐brainer. Almost immediately, this guru captivated Beth's team.
He started with passion and energy, “The interplay of unstoppable forces that are creating the ‘Perfect Storm’ in the deep waters of commerce will sink organizations and individuals that are ill prepared, or that lose focus on what they have identified as most important.
“The white waters of change are unnerving for many. But the fact is they will only become more turbulent. For organizations and employees who are unprepared, the future will be devastating.
“The need for increased levels of personal and organizational accountability has never been higher. And that need will expand daily.
“Consider:
The speaker paused, surveying his audience before driving home his final point: “Those who will survive and thrive in this new world of work are individuals, teams, and organizations who can maintain high levels of accountability, remain focused, and do whatever it takes to achieve what matters most.
“To take and lead accountability? If not you, who?”