💥 unspoken expectations are relationship killers 💥

During lunch, I just listened to a podcast episode about relationships. It’s mostly about love relationships but it soon got clear that much of the principles are relevant in business relationships as well.

Like this one: unspoken expectations are relationship killers.

That’s exactly why I’m currently working on a personal Miro board, visualizing what the people I work with can expect from me in my current role as a Product Owner. It contains things like:

• What I offer to do
• what I don’t do
• what I’m currently doing but think I actually shouldn’t…
• what’s important to me in my job
• what my guiding principles are

Apart from that, I’m including some information about

• myself as a person
• my values
• and the areas where I’m currently trying to improve myself.

Creating this has already helped me a lot because I had to think about my focus, my goals, my values and how I invest my time.

The next step is to have a 1:1 call with everyone I usually work with. The board will facilitate a conversation about expectations. I won’t just send it to someone to read it and accept my terms and conditions.

I guess these calls will be a bit outside of my comfort zone. I will open up and show myself, I might have to say no to something they wish to get from me, we might find a mismatch of expecations and that can be uncomfortable — but it’s exactly the point.

I am quite sure it will be worth it :)