Join hosts Merv Jersak and Tim Jerome as they explore the critical role of ethics and trust in project management. Learn how to align personal and team values for better project outcomes and foster a collaborative, respectful work environment. The hosts discuss embedding values into expected behaviors, building trust through consistent actions, and strategies for managing stakeholder relationships, especially with clients who have different risk tolerances. They also provide insights on handling practical ethical dilemmas and highlight how ethical leadership can lead to better decision-making and project success. Main Take-Aways Why you must exhibit a strong sense of ethics and morals as you lead your projects: to show consistency across both professional and personal conduct to remain consistent to your values to manage diverse sets of values among your teams to balance personal and group values to understand others' behaviors to show responsibility, accountability, collaboration, trust, credibility, dependability to increase the probability of project success Show Notes Today's Project Managers Coffee Chat: The Importance of Behaving Ethically and Morally 00:41 Going deeper into the why of incorporating ethics and morals into your project management. 01:37 Consistency in professional and personal ethical conduct. 02:04 Changing your behavior by reassessing your values. 03:47 Managing diverse values (and therefore behaviors) in your teams. 05:44 Balancing personal and group values, especially across various cultural norms. 07:04 Understanding values does not mean changing values, but you do need to live your values. Your job is not to change people, but to understand the impact of their behaviors and use this as an opportunity to mentor. 09:40 The importance of ethics in daily project management: responsibility, accountability, collaboration, trust, credibility, dependability. 12:59 Managing risk and risk tolerance as you exhibit ethics and morals on your project through consistency, credibility, and expertise. 15:45 Acting morally and ethically in a variety of project situations. 17:36 The role of ethics in promoting project success. 18:21 The role of ethics in how you act and behave as you lead your projects.  

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