We generally work to deliver others’ expectations and meet their demands. Most of us in business organizations are answerable to someone else. From the head in the organization chart to the bottom, nearly every manager and employee must look to a leader to set the expectations and dictate deadlines, review progress and measure results.
Whoever gives these directions is called the boss. The boss decides how employees should perform their jobs. How well an employee meets requirements set by the boss determines whether that employee succeeds or fails, receives rewards or penalties, and earns praise or criticism. So we work focusing on our supervisor’s happiness. Is this the best way to succeed? Does this help you become the star you want to be?
Goals
The judgment of an external boss isn’t enough to make a job personally fulfilling and rewarding and to develop yourself. Everyone who works must also answer to an inner boss, a personal, internal power that provides guidance on whether a job is worth doing and whether it is done well.
Accepting personal accountability for your work means your inner boss sets demanding goals. After all there is no one else who understands your own capacity better than anyone else.
Employees of business organizations who want to increase their effectiveness at work while exercising more control over their own day-to-day activities should develop a sense for their own inner goal setting and performing against those for self satisfaction.
Expectations
More optimistic employees would go beyond the employer set goals to fully tap into the inner capacity for greater output and faster growth.
You might argue; what if the employer sets unrealistic or near impossible targets? It’s a huge de-motivating factor which wouldn’t help either party. Yet, don’t give up hopes.
Try hard to see if you can convert the impossible into the possible with your creativity, innovation and mind power. Find different ways of doing the same thing for better results. Look for creative and innovative strategy and smarter execution not merely incremental effort to deliver extra. Employees need a self-challenge for optimum stimulation.
A goal with self stimuli is the best winning combination which will naturally get the best out of you.
If you are dissatisfied with your current circumstances, work place or your boss, no one can fix them except you.
It doesn’t do any good to blame the economy, your boss, your spouse or your family. Change can only occur when you make a conscious decision to make it happen.