At Create Forward, we believe in the power of accountability to drive meaningful change within organizations and communities. Our work spans various sectors, helping organizations cultivate transparency, trust, and equity cultures. This article explores how organizations can build a culture of accountability, drawing insights from our extensive experience in community engagement and leadership development.

In today's dynamic and fast-paced workplaces, managers who understand the value of feedback can unlock the full potential of their teams. Welcoming feedback from your team is not just a mere formality but a powerful tool that can enhance trust, inspire shared leadership, and improve overall team performance.

According to the World Health Organization, burnout is a syndrome resulting from a failure to manage workplace chronic stress. The reasons we’re all burnt out are fairly obvious. Since 2020 we’ve lived, worked, and taken care of families as a global pandemic raged on and we’ve yet to even tally the full impact of COVID on our relationships, communities, and even our long-term mental and physical health. We’re tired and we have every right to be

In today’s workplaces, most of our communication happens digitally. Some studies report that only 23% of our communication at work happens via in-person meetings. That means three-quarters of our communication is via email or a messaging app like Slack. While the rules of how we can communicate in person both verbally and non-verbally might seem a bit more clearly defined it seems to be much harder to agree on the shared norms and expectations of digital communication. But the stakes are way too high to not get clear on how we communicate digitally.

If 2020 was the year of a racial reckoning where institutions began to invest time and resources to advance racial equity then 2021 was the year that those same institutions realized that racial equity requires a culture of accountability to succeed.

Two weeks ago, at the start of an ordinary work week I sat down at my computer and watched as a slew of cancellations began to fill my inbox. Speaking engagements, trainings, and meetings one by one cancelled, postponed, rescheduled. It only took two days of this before I was forced to accept the hard reality that the world as we know it was being brought to heel before the COVID-19 pandemic.