To be success driven in a workplace requires that you understand your organisation’s performance expectations.
They form part of your goals and outcomes and are reflected in how you daily carry out your job functions.
I have put together a list of such expectations hoping you find them useful
- Leadership & People Management: How you motivate others into productivity especially when they are unsure of their expectations
- Collaboration and Team work: How you work together, give each other support to achieve organisational goals
- Compliance: How you comply with your companies policies, processes and regulations.
- Communication: How you receive and give information between you and your colleagues, superiors and external customers
- Professional Development: How you consistently develop yourself over time matters to your employer
- Criticism and Feedback acceptance: At some point you will be appraised and your reaction to your appraisal will determine your tolerance level and growth in your workplace
- Professionalism: when you display knowledge, confidence and right skills in performing your job.By doing this, you are showing you take your job seriously and you care about responsibilities you are saddled with.
- Your comportment and behaviour at work: how you engage your colleagues, managing your emotions and display of empathy at work.
- Productivity: Your ability to meet your goals and set timelines
- Tools: How well you use the organisation’s tools and devices, whether you justify the trst reposed in you by not converting work tools for personal use and also ensure thatchy are well secured and managed.
- Decision Making: The effectiveness of your decision or lack of it and most importantly taking responsibility for the consequences of your decision.
- Risk Management: You are assessed based on how well you identify, manage and handle risk situations and this also includes how you planned for known and unforeseen risks and how you communicate them to parties involved. This is essential in every business.
- Revenue: Every business is particular about return on their investments and as such, emphasis will be on your role in ensuring revenue targets are met and possible review aimed at increasing it. You will also be appraised when you have nothing to show in this regards.
- Budget Management: You will be evaluated on how well you manage the Finance for your project or unit. focus will be on how prudent you are in spending.
- Transparency: How truthful you are in your workplace especially when communicating valuable and honest information to others. Management is very appreciative of staffs who are explicit when sharing their action plan on projects especially the deliverables, pitfalls to avoid and processes.
- Creativity: One thing is for any organization o have a set process and initiative, another thing is having a genius as staff who comes up with better creative ideas that will help the set goals. bringing your creativity to the table will also help your personal growth in workplace.
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