From the course: Just Ask: Dorie Clark on Personal Effectiveness

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Meeting others' expectations

Meeting others' expectations

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Meeting others' expectations

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- Our next question comes from Rishi, who is an Assurance associate in India. He asked, "for your career management and growth, it's vital to meet others expectations of you. How do you identify and establish these expectations?" - Rishi thanks for your question. When it comes to identifying the expectations that other people have for you, I learned a really valuable lesson years ago from a guy who worked with me. He was actually the best employee I ever had, and when I saw how he handled things I realized that actually in my time as an employee, rather than as a manager, I had been missing the boat a lot. So his name was Kumar and when I was supervising Kumar I remember he would come to me sometimes, and he would periodically just plop down in my office and he would say, "How can I best help you right now?" And I thought that was such an amazing question. We were working on a political campaign and it was an…

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