3. Understand how others perceive your job.
While building relationships and learning about the company, also ask questions about how others perceive your job to understand their expectations of you, your role, and your overall function.
Often, in a Company every one of your stakeholders have a different expectation of your role, and one leader had no idea how he viewed your role or how you could use your skills to bring value to his organization.
You would have to spend time aligning everyone on what your role is and isn’t so you could meet their expectations.
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