“God has given us a mission, and we’ve got to get our mission done. I’m committed to this. It’s a big goal. To achieve it, every staff member needs to be involved. Every staff member. Definitely me. What do I need to do to get all staff members, including me, involved?”

Answer: Maintain and increase your own and your staff’s commitment, participation, and accountability. (This is a key organizational standard.)

So, what can you do to maintain and increase your own and your staff’s commitment to, participation in, and accountability for getting the mission done? Here are 15 options:

1. Pray.
   
2. Tell stories of the mission getting done.
   
3. Publish articles about the mission and getting it done.
   
4. Put your mission at the bottom of each email you send.
   
5. Make an attractive computer screensaver that incorporates your mission statement and images of your mission statement getting done. Install the screensaver on as many computers as possible.
   
6. Ask questions like, “How will this help us get our mission done?”
   
7. Listen to the responses to your questions.
   
8. Design job descriptions so that they are a function of mission achievement.
   
9. Empower 100% of staff to recite the mission, explain the definition of mission achievement, and explain the current level of mission achievement.
   
10. Provide the support and encouragement your staff needs to get the mission done.
    
11. Use SMART goals.
    
12. Use scoreboards to track progress on SMART goals.
    
13. Take a self-assessment regarding your level of commitment to, participation in, and accountability for getting the mission done. Use your self-assessment results to develop a SMART goal, and share your goal with your staff. Next, ask each of your staff to complete the self-assessment and to develop a SMART goal.
    
14. On the annual evaluation, include a section on commitment to, participation in, and accountability for getting the mission done.
    
15. Invite your staff to respond to the following: “To increase my commitment to, participation in, and accountability for getting the mission done, I need ____.” Review the input, and then implement it, as appropriate.

3 questions:

• What are some other options you can think of?
  
• Which options are you already using?
  
• Which options will you use today…? To increase staff commitment to getting the mission done? To increase staff participation in getting the mission done? To increase staff accountability for getting the mission done?

Steward what God has given you. Do something. Today.