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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.
Success in a new job

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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