ReThink-ReSet Coaching Podcast Share! Do They Have Clarity? Do YOU??

0:00I'm going to say this for the 10,000th time, something I have done really well in life and something that I have messed up. When I have messed up, it is called, it is called confusion and chaos and it is slowed growth. It has got in between personal and professional relationships and that is this, that is clarity. What do I mean by clarity in this short episode? I mean setting expectations for jobs, for careers, for partnerships. Anytime I'm going to engage with you as a partner or as a mate or as a employee or as your business partner, whatever it is, if we have not taken the time to clearly state expectations and a lot of times in the professional world that comes in the form of a job description written down, talked through, hashed out so many times. I'm talking more times than not. When I talk to businesses, whether they're large or small, when I look at job descriptions, or I ask for them, it's either they have one that it's four

1:00years old, or we've hired three people since then, that job's kind of changed, or we've talked about it, they've been trained, they know. And then all of a sudden, you're three months in, six months in, six years in, and there's unmet expectations. They think they're doing well, you think they're failing. They feel like they're not meeting expectations. You're like, oh, they're doing fine, but at least to the silent undercurrent of being unhappy, unfulfilled, feeling like there's always something that's on the table to talk about, but nobody does. And the reason is, is no one slows down long enough. They'd rather live with the pain of the chaos. They would rather live with the pain of the anxiety, the unmet or the uncommunicated things. They'd rather live with that than the pain of slowing down and going, wait a minute, let's just do this. Let's get in the room and go, what should we expect from each other? What do you expect from me as your employee or leader or boss? What should you expect from me as your business partner, as your spouse, as your friend, as an employee? Whatever it is. And then what should I expect from you?

2:01We'll hash that out. Sometimes I have the leverage in that relationship. Sometimes I don't, but I'm telling you right now, if you find yourself looking at employee files, first of all, if you don't have an employee file, right? Think about that. And there are not, there's not a job application. I'm not a job description there. Not just the application that told you what you got to be good at. I'm telling you, hey, we, we've hired Clint. Hey, Clint, here's what we are expecting from you. You can be as granular or as broad as you want as long as everyone is on the same page. And then you got to revisit it from time to time, just like everything else. You don't go in one date and then get married and assume you know each other. You keep dating each other. The reason you're so, you've got so many friends that you're good friends with is because you spent time with them. You know them. Things change. Their lives change. Same with your employees, same with the people you're leading and same with the people that are leading you. The company changes. If your job, if your company is not being proactive and that approach them, say, hey, can we sit down and talk about am I meeting expectations? And by the way,

3:03are those expectations written down somewhere that we've both signed off on? So I now go get up in the morning and go to bed at night knowing that I've done my best to meet the expectations that you have and that I have. I promise you, if you've not made it official and you're living simply by they know and I know and we did and we should and we talk all the time, it's going to lead to chaos eventually. And you'll slow your growth. You'll have a lot of turnover and you'll always feel like I'm not the leader I should be or they're not the employee they should be. A lot of times you could be and they could be. You have just not been clear. Have a great day, everybody.