Succeeding in your new job
Tick the 2 or 3 keys to success for you in your new job?
| Meeting/exceeding targets. | |
| Pleasing my boss. | |
| Being accepted by new colleagues. | |
| Building my own team. | |
| Establishing my authority. | |
| Winning over my new team. | |
| Gaining the respect of key stakeholders. | |
| Creating some new competitive advantages. | |
| Increasing efficiency, quality, customer satisfaction. | |
| Getting to grips with new technology, products, markets. |
- Are you thinking: ''All of the above?''
- Anxiety is most damaging when it is not specific.
- To reduce anxiety about your success, identify the most important specifics you want to achieve. Prioritize them for a strategic perspective on what's most important.
- Develop a plan to address each success criterion separately.
- Managing new relationships - colleagues and your new team
- It's high risk to be too self-reliant in trying to prove yourself.
- Much of your success will depend on support from others.
- How can you win over key stakeholders?
- A key step is to balance your needs and respecting theirs.
- Too much assertion of your needs too soon might be rejected.
- Conversely, being too accommodating could lead others to take advantage or not respect you.
- Think ''win-win'' for better odds of gaining acceptance.
- Avoid the ''new broom'' approach.
- How clear are you abot the requirements of your role?
- How can you be sure to learn as you adapt to your new role?
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