Driving Accountability in Teams
Because ownership isn’t given — it’s chosen.
At a glance
Why This Matters
Accountability is the heartbeat of high performance. Yet in many teams, it’s also the most elusive. People confuse it with blame or wait for direction instead of taking initiative. True accountability happens when individuals feel trusted, empowered, and personally connected to outcomes.
This workshop helps leaders and teams shift from compliance to commitment. Through experiential challenges, guided reflection, and real-world discussions, participants uncover what ownership really means, learn to set clear expectations, and hold themselves and others accountable, without micromanagement or fear.
Research by Partners In Leadership shows that organisations with strong accountability cultures perform significantly better than peers.
2.5
Times higher revenue growth
30-50%
Higher employee engagement
12%
Boost in productivity
Business Impact You’ll See
“Accountability breeds response-ability.”
— Stephen R. Covey
Designed for
First-Time Managers
Mid-Level Managers
Senior Managers
Team Leaders
Designed the FocusU Way
Behind every FocusU experience lies a design philosophy we call FACETS:
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F
Feedback
Learners get actionable insight into where they stand
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A
Application
Whatever is learnt is applied within the session itself
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C
Contextual
Examples are drawn from the client industry and organization
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E
Experiential
Learning by doing, not by listening
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T
Tailored
Personalised to the lived experiences of the individual learner
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S
Stimulating
Inspiring new thinking and imagination in the learner
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Walk-Through of Learner Experience
At FocusU, every learning experience follows a deliberate arc — moving participants
from awareness to application, and from insight to action.
| STAGE | WHAT HAPPENS |
|---|---|
| Discover | Participants experience engaging activities, challenges and scenarios that surface real attitudes, assumptions, and patterns of behaviour. |
| Reflect | Guided debriefs and discussions help them make sense of what they experienced - connecting it to their personal and workplace realities. |
| Reframe | Learners explore new mindsets, tools, and frameworks that offer fresh ways to approach everyday challenges. |
| Apply | Through practice, planning, and peer feedback, participants translate insights into actionable commitments they can take back to work. |
Every FocusU intervention is designed to move learners from knowing to doing — ensuring
learning doesn’t end in the workshop, but continues in how people think, collaborate, and lead.
Trusted by businesses big and small
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The item that took this class from a social learning experience to tangible training was the quantitative tools that were presented. These will allow me to focus my decisions in a manner that is justifiable and defensible. Any decision maker that might be called on the carpet needs this training to defend themselves and their decisions in a quantifiable manner.
Keith L. Perrin
Intel Corporation, USA SW Engineering Manager -
FocusU has always made learning interesting. Topics are converted into activities and the learning from the activities are then discussed - which makes us relate to it in real time. The best part is there is no PPT and the team is always takes inputs for discussion. A facilitator is definitely more knowledgeable than the people who attend the training. The key is how you hold your intelligence within yourself and get down to the level of attendees.
Selvam Thamizharassan
CGI Manager Consulting -
As a People’s company, everyone knows and understands the concept of Growth Mindset & Accountability, however the kind of activities and experiential learning programmed by FocusU added an element of excitement and gave us enough room to think and play around it. Great effort was put into make the overall session very logical coupled with the de-briefs after summing up each activity.
Divya Chauhan
TrueBlue India LLP L&D Partner -
The Leadership workshop helped all of us to take a step back and analyse ourselves on the kind of leadership traits we have and that we don’t have. How we could all become better leaders and help others grow along with us.
Anuj Mathur
Reed Manch Exhibitions Managing Director -
FocusU was a simple Google search for me. Having said that, there were other training firms whose details also showed up. But right from the time that I established my first contact with them, there has not been an instance where I had to follow up with their team. Extremely proactive, understand their clients needs and the best part - they customize the training requirements really well!
Antony Titus
DHL Express India Head - Customer Service Development -
Thank you FocusU and Smollan L&D team for designing such a wonderful continuous learning program. It acted like small and effective doses to look for what next. Case studies chosen were all relevant for my Global Development Team & I could not ask for more. Let’s plan for some monthly 1 hour on premise confluence sessions.
Vijay Varshney
SMOLLAN Head of Technology - MESA -
The Learning challenge was very informative and challenging. The thing which I love about this challenge is that it provides videos also that make it easy to understand the concept.
Vishal More
Smollan
Frequently asked questions
Don’t see an answer to your question?
Drop us an email and we will get back
For each workshop, we can help you with three different teasers you can customize and share periodically with participants to build excitement and get traction.
You can download a program overview from each of the topic pages. Do note that while this will give you a broad structure of the workshop, our learning designers will still need to talk with you to customize the workshop to your context.
Ready to Build a Culture of Ownership
and Follow-Through?
Let’s co-create an experience that helps your people move from
obligation to accountability — and from excuses to results.