{"id":47,"date":"2007-04-02T17:45:29","date_gmt":"2007-04-02T21:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/?p=47"},"modified":"2016-01-04T10:40:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T15:40:41","slug":"encouraging-others-to-meet-their-own-expectations-rather-than-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/47\/encouraging-others-to-meet-their-own-expectations-rather-than-yours","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging others to meet their own expectations &#8211; rather than yours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At first, this may seem like a strange idea to business leaders.\u00a0 I can hear some of you saying, \u201cHow can I NOT try to motivate others toward\u00a0MY expectations?\u00a0 Isnt&#8217; that what leadership and management is about?\u201d\u00a0 The answer comes to us in books like <em>Good to Great<\/em>, <em>The Seven Day Weekend<\/em>, and <em>The\u00a08th Habit<\/em>: if you plug the right people into the right goals, they will\u00a0very often exceed your expectations, and not need as much (if any) management.\u00a0 This results in more time for managers to strategize and facilitate the execution of these strategies, rather than constantly putting out fires related to poorly motivated employees.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Identifying\u00a0and utilizing\u00a0all of your employees\u2019 potential takes some up front time, but pays off in\u00a0huge dividends over the weeks, months, and years.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t mean you have to move away from clarifying your expectations to your team; indeed, a \u201cFully Functioning Leader\u201d constantly clarifies his or her expectations \u2013 then helps employees choose where to spend their energy within those areas based on their abilities and interests.\u00a0\u00a0Of course, Fully Functioning Employees must then execute &#8211; or be better trained regarding how to select their goals in the future.<\/p>\n<p>A final note on this topic:\u00a0it may be that allowing employees to create their own expectations (rather than simply trying to live up to\u00a0their leaders\u2019) could better fit your some of your clients\u2019 needs anyway.\u00a0 The Fully Functioning Leader knows that he or she does not know everything, and it may be that certain employees can better assess the expectations of the customer!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/45\/on-becoming-a-more-fully-functioning-organization\"><em>Click here to read more about Fully Functioning Organizations<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At first, this may seem like a strange idea to business leaders.\u00a0 I can hear some of you saying, \u201cHow can I NOT try to motivate others toward\u00a0MY expectations?\u00a0 Isnt&#8217; that what leadership and management is about?\u201d\u00a0 The answer comes to us in books like Good to Great, The Seven Day Weekend, and The\u00a08th Habit: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teamgroup-excellence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1066,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/1066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.excellenceuniversity.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}