Career Advice - Are You Meeting Their Expectations?

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Understanding what your boss, your direct reports and your peers expect from you and meeting those expectations is essential to the success of your career.

This is for Bill Neale, founding partner of Denison Consulting, a firm devoted to studying the relationship between organizational culture and leadership on the bottom line results.

Here's a quick review of the research conducted by Denison:

1.Šef expects you to set and achieve goals and strategies that support long-term mission of the organization. "You can be the greatest team player in the world, or the beautiful" people person ", but if you ignore the mission of your organization will never satisfy the boss," says Neale, professional leadership development.

2 Your direct reports expect you to promote teamwork, delegate authority and responsibility, and encourage personal development. Therefore, getting your direct reports involved, motivated and committed is crucial. "If you do not really deal with people who work for you, you will not win the trust of them, and you're unlikely to fully utilize their energy and talents," says Neale.

3 Peers are expected to be flexible and consistent, and organizations committed to the principles and values​​. Organizing peer groups are difficult to satisfy. "May they have less information about you, or you see as competition," Neale says. "Peers, however, do not place a high value on flexibility, ability to overcome organizational boundaries and limits, and push the alignment of the workplace ."

The point is, if you're serious about succeeding first step is to familiarize yourself with different expectations, saying the unspoken in your head, who reports to you and your peers.