The Elliott method
Accountability should be visible.
A good coaching call can feel useful and still disappear by Tuesday. The Elliott method keeps the commitment alive between the conversation and the next review.
1. Decide
Choose what actually matters this week.
Not twelve priorities. Not a vague ambition. We decide the small number of things that genuinely matter enough to review.
A clear week begins before the urgent work starts asking for attention.
2. Commit
Make the promise specific enough to check.
“Work on the website” is difficult to review. “Publish the pricing page by Thursday” is much clearer.
Specific commitments remove the room to quietly redefine success after the week gets busy.
3. Check in
Use the right frequency for where your week normally breaks.
Weekly may be enough. Momentum adds weekday check-ins. Performance adds daily accountability. More contact is only useful if it catches drift before the week has already gone.
4. Review
Look at what happened, not what you meant to do.
Completed. Moved. Missed. Blocked. The review is based on evidence rather than memory.
Then we ask why. The point is not to make a missed task dramatic. It is to make the next commitment better.
5. Recommit
Carry forward the lesson, not automatically the task.
Some missed tasks need another commitment. Some need shrinking. Some need delegating. Some should be dropped.
The next week should be based on what we learned, not on copying the same list into Monday.
Human accountability
The system matters. So does the person on the other side of it.
You need to be able to say, “I didn't do it,” without the whole conversation turning into a performance. Then we can look at what happened and decide what changes.
Enquire about coachingStart here