Here's how you can establish goals and expectations for your team as a mid-career professional.

Defining Goals is the first step in achieving anything. Goals provide clarity and set the direction. When setting up the goals for your team members, consider company goals, team goals/charter, individual's personal development goals and then combine them to arrive at final goals for each individual.

Defining the Goals are prime essentials: Setting goals is an essential part of success for pharmaceutical companies. With so many factors to consider, it's crucial to have a clear and organized approach to goal setting. Begin by identifying the key objectives you want to achieve as a pharmaceutical company. This could include increasing sales, launching new products, improving customer satisfaction, or expanding into new markets.

Once the goals arw in place, you need to lay down the expectations standard. Talk to your team and explain them efficiently about what is expected out of them. Use your experience to communicate effectively, listen to their feedbacks and concerns, describe the strategies, techniques in the simplest manner possible. Motivate them to give their best and remind them that they are open to explore any methods to reach the goal and can ask for support anytime they want.

As a mid-career professional, you must know the importance of keeping a regular check on their work. It helps in figuring out where the individual is doing great, where improvement is needed and how to implement sudden changes in the plan. Offer them advices from the treasures of knowledge that you have and give them real life examples, milestone achieving ideas, tips, etc, to improve their progress and give better outcomes.

This is where a strong story can help. Once you have built the underlying trust that will make your team feel invested in, you need to craft a narrative about why growth and change will benefit the individual and the team. Using story or narrative will make it more accessible as linking to a story is a deeply human way to understand something. Make your team or team members the heroes of that story, as their leader, you want their narrative to benefit them and your company goals.