HR & People Jargon · Managing Director level

"Drive accountability"

"Drive accountability" means to ensure that specific people are responsible for outcomes and can be held to them.

Say this instead: hold people responsible

How "Drive accountability" shows up at work

Appears in performance reviews and team retrospectives, most often after something went wrong and no one wants to say whose fault it was. The word "drive" does a lot of work distancing the speaker from the blame-assigning they are absolutely about to do.

Buzzword

We need to drive accountability across the team before the next planning cycle.

Plain English

We need to hold people responsible before the next planning cycle.

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