If you’re a champion (and you are), you’ll need to know how to improve your leadership skills.
Whether you are a shift manager, sales manager, drilling superintendent, or business owner, all of these roles need you to have top leadership skills and use them appropriately.
If you are promoted into a leadership role, you will quickly realize you need to hone your skills, or you’ll struggle in your new position.
Life has a way of elevating true champions. Just as cream rises to the top of milk, true champions rise to the top of companies, departments, projects, and committees.
When that happens, old relationships fall away. It can be emotional and difficult, but it’s part of the price of leadership.
You’re Not “One of the Gang” Anymore
It becomes all the more difficult when you are elevated out of being one of the group. I won’t try to convince you that this is an easy process. Sometimes it happens naturally after you begin to immerse yourself in positive self-development materials and activities. One day you look around, and positive, like-minded people surround you.
Don’t be cruel or dismissive of others, but you have to respond to the call of success. That call will always separate you before it elevates you. I have seen people elevated while trying to hang on to someone from the old days.
In this case, the old friend will often trip them up. Not because they’re a bad friend, but because they’re addicted to negativity. Be around people who are successful and positive.
Keep A Circle of Like-Minded People
Start hanging around people more successful than you. Success has a different definition for everyone. Learn their secrets. Ask them to teach you. That’s what “separated to be elevated” means. You choose the kind of influences, people, books, movies, and material you allow into your life. If you want to achieve greatness, you have to decide to develop a masterful team of positive, influential people who are success-driven and believe in you.