Endeavour to meet Expectations

When you become a manager, the expectations from you increase from all sides. It is not just your boss, even your subordinates expect a lot from you. You have to meet the goals, objectives and targets efficiently; and give right direction to your subordinates.

Always you must make efforts to live up to the expectations or even exceed expectations on all fronts. For example, your subordinates need clarification where they have to invest their precious time. Here you need to prioritise and set them their goals as a team as well as individuals. Over a period of time you may have to asses their performance.
You must also be able to give a better understanding of the bigger organizational picture, so that they gain motivation to perform well by learning how their contribution is going to help foster company’s progress.
Your co-work force expects you to give feed back on their performance occasionally. It must be in such a way that they learn where to improve. At the same time, you ought to give them at least some degree of creative freedom to use their discretion in performing their jobs within broad boundaries. This develops trust, which may even inspire them to shoulder extra responsibilities and work extra hard.

Besides the above abilities a manager must be approachable and accessible whenever they need help. From the top brass, the expectations are always high. So what are the general expectations of a boss? Certainly a willingness to face new challenges, come up with innovated ideas, a tendency to collaborate with others within, a high degree of commitment, involvement; ability to keep yourself abreast of the developments, see in to the future, presence of mind to take timely action in the best interests of the organization and finally, the right attitude to handle good as well as bad situations equally well.

If you endeavour to meet the above said expectation, you can easily achieve your career expectations.