How to Manage Expectations at Work - Improve A Vital Leadership Skill

How to manage expectations at work are essential skills to learn and improve no matter what you do. Use these 5 tried and trusted steps do a brilliant job of setting expectations at work.

Set and manage expectations well and you will be:
1. Easier to work with
2. Colleagues will like you more because you don’t let them down
3. You are perceived as
a. more professional
b. a team player
c. better at your job
4. And you are more likely to be promoted.

Set expectations is common piece of advice for nearly any office worker, yet not many managers or colleagues take you through how to do this effectively.

As a result, many staff and managers are not effective at setting or managing of those they work with – their colleagues, manager, team members and other stakeholders.

Practice these 5 steps at work and build your confidence and your skill in managing expectations. Your happiness, stress levels and career will all thank you for it.

Setting expectations as a manager or leader is challenging because you have more moving parts and more peoples’ expectations to manage.

These 5 steps are super useful in how to set expectations with your boss and with setting expectations with employees.

Everyone likes to work with a person that sets and manages expectations and then delivers against those expectations time and time again. Work at your expectation management skills and it won’t take you long to be in these shoes.

00:00 Intro
02:53 Step 1 - Think Ahead
03:59 Step 2 – Find out Why you are being asked to do the work
06:30 Step 3 – Plan Ahead
07:22 Step 4 – Set Expectations
09:52 Step 5 – Regularly communicate until the work is finished
11:54 In Summary

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If you have a different approach to setting and managing expectations at work which works well, I would love to hear what you do – please leave a comment below.