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Expectations. They have the power to shape our experiences and influence how we perform. We set expectations for ourselves, from a personal level all the way up to organizational expectations like customer service or sales goals. In this blog post, I am going to talk about what it means when those expectations are not met and how they can affect your performance in both negative and positive ways. In the first example, we have a child who has been told that they will be rewarded with a toy if they behave for an hour. If this is not met and they find themselves getting upset or angry at no reward after the allotted time, then their performance on behaving was affected negatively by those expectations. By communicating to your child that there are clear consequences for bad behavior, you can avoid these types of negative outcomes from happening again in the future. The second type of expectation involves external factors such as motivation: When someone does not feel motivated enough to do their best work at work because it doesn’t align with what’s expected of them based off past behaviors and accomplishments (or lack thereof), then their performance suffers due to the unmet expectations from themselves and their employer. If you are the one who is not motivated, then there may be other factors at play that need to be addressed first before taking on additional responsibilities or going back into work during your maternity leave. If it’s a lack of feedback about what needs improvement, more training can help fill in any gaps in knowledge so performance goals can be met. It might also mean looking for new opportunities elsewhere where the culture better suits your personality, rather than staying somewhere with an expectation ceiling which won’t allow anyone to grow further as they should have been able to do otherwise. This blog post has talked about some different examples of how unmet expectations impact us negatively but we must remember that sometimes these changes aren’t
