Keys to success in a new job

What are the 2 or 3 keys to success in your new job? 

• Meeting or exceeding targets.
• Pleasing my boss.
• Being accepted by my colleagues.
• Building my own team.
• Establishing my authority.
• Winning over key stakeholders.
• Creating new sources of competitive advantage.
• Improving efficiency, customer service and quality.
• Getting to grips with new techology, 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?