Accountability

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Gail McGovern

10.21.21

As a self-described "geeky quantitative sciences major," Gail is a big fan of numbers. She uses them for all sorts of stuff, and accountability is no exception.

Get Geeky!

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As a self-described “geeky quantitative sciences major,” Gail is a big fan of numbers. She uses them for all sorts of stuff, and accountability is no exception.

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Can you describe for us one leadership practice that you have established to hold people accountable on your team?
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Gail McGovern

Hold them accountable? So we do operation reviews every month and I get to see revenue from fundraising. I get to see productivity metrics for our biomedical organization. We just take a look at the numbers and if they're soft spots, we try to understand it. But we have a cadence that we follow. It just figures out whether or not we're performing. And I literally get daily reports on how many units of blood we've collected. I mean, I'm a geeky, quantitative sciences major, what can I tell you? I like looking at numbers.
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