Overcommunication drives better collaboration and higher earnings. Create a personal user guide explaining how you work, set clear expectations upfront, learn your teammates' styles, reset expectations as things change, and continuously repeat your mission and values.
If you don't ask, you don't get. I used to be stupid enough to believe that, well, I wanted people to just read my mind. So here's how you can overcommunicate, because overcommunication is undervalued. First things first, you have to create a user guide. So user guide will define how you work, how you communicate, your personality test, all the ticks, what's good about working with you, what's bad about working with you. That way people have this manual, this guide to working with you in the very beginning. Number 2 is setting clear expectations upfront. If you don't set clear expectations, how are people going to know where to go? How are they going to know what to accomplish? Number 3 is to learn other people's style of working. And also their style of communication. Ideally, they're also going to create a user guide as well. Number 4 is to reset expectations because information changes over time and you have to be adaptable. Number 5 is to continually repeat your mission and your values, and you have to continually refine and again repeat expectations like I just said. So
