PMBOK® Guide - Eighth Edition: Being an Accountable Project Leader

Welcome to this course on being an accountable leader in project management. Accountability extends beyond formal project managers to anyone contributing to projects, regardless of their role or title. This course centers on the "Be an Accountable Leader" principle from the PMBOK® Guide – Eighth Edition, which integrates stewardship, servant leadership, and personal accountability into a practical leadership standard. This principle applies across predictive, adaptive, and hybrid delivery approaches. Throughout the course, we'll explore taking ownership of project business objectives, actions, and decisions. You'll discover essential characteristics of accountable leaders, including integrity, honesty, fairness, self-awareness, respectfulness, humility, availability, flexibility, and adaptability. These values build stakeholder trust, guide decision-making in challenging situations, and maintain focus on the common good, supported by real project examples from various industries.