“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus.” – Stephen Hawking
As a leader, you’re responsible for keeping your team motivated and engaged. It’s especially challenging in these times with teams working remotely and the sense of disconnection is even stronger.
Now more than ever, it’s critical for you to align expectations with your team around your collective goals and also around how they can each help meet those goals, within their roles.
In this Forbes article, a team of experts was asked to share their ideas on the best ways for leaders to set expectations with their employees.
My tip (#3) – Have Conversations To Set Expectations Together.
Leaders should not set expectations for employees but rather have a conversation where expectations are set together for both sides. I like to help my clients create a “user manual” where they spell out what they expect from their team as well as what their team can expect from them. The team members share their user manuals with each other and create clarity about expectations as a result.
If you would like to create your own user manual, click here and I will send you a copy!
And if you find it tough to get out of bed in the morning and keep hitting the snooze button here’s something for you to read on that.