How To Help Others Succeed

The best way for you to succeed is by helping others succeed

In an earlier post, we discussed people who want to share their knowledge. Now I want to discuss how people who are insecure and don’t want others to know what they know because it will threaten their position.

The people who are insecure and don’t want to share their knowledge have a mindset that is limited. They believe that there is not enough of a particular thing for everyone. For example, if I was to get a promotion, then they believe that they won’t.

If I was to get a pay rise, then they believe that they won’t. If was to get an award or recognition for something, then they believe they won’t. A limited mindset is not a nice place to be.

I have worked with many people who have a limited mindset, and what is common between every one of these people is, it is never their fault.

If they don’t get the promotion, it is because somebody else did. If they didn’t get the pay rise, it was because somebody else did. If they didn’t get the recognition or award, it’s because somebody else did.

People who have a limited mindset, never look within themselves. If they don’t achieve what they want, they look outwards and blame others. We talked earlier about responsibility, and these people are the ones who do not take responsibility for what happens to them.

They never embrace responsibility for that matter. Everything is always about them. It is ME not WE. You probably know people, or work with people who are exactly like this. It would be a good idea to share this article with them, and share my other articles.

As you are fully aware by now, I have written this article and created my website (highlyeffectiveleader.com) to help you, but I also want you to use my website site to help others too.

As we go through each article, you can notice that each post interlinks and there is a common thread…LEADERSHIP, PERSONAL GROWTH and INFLUENCE.

So when sharing these ideas, please ensure that the same common thread interlinks through them.

I find that when teaching a person about the leadership principles that I share is to repeat them every so often when talking about a different topic each time. This keeps the idea’s fresh.

As an example; when working as an engineer for the railway and working on the trains, the first thing that I was taught was about train wire 13. This was when I was working in Liverpool on the Class 507 rolling stock.

Train wire 13 goes from coupler to coupler on both ends of the train. Then throughout the train, wire 13 interlinks everything electrical up. Doors, safety systems, brakes, power, everything.

So, INFLUENCE is our train wire 13, and when sharing these leadership principles to another person we need to have that wire 13 (influence) interlinking everything we discuss.

Think of all the different relationships that train wire 13 will have with all the different components throughout the train. As a team member and being part of a team, we ourselves need to become train wire 13 and interlink with each person.

In other words build relationships with each one of the team. But also, we need to help the rest of the team do the same and interlink with everyone, or build relationships with each person.

That is the foundation of helping ourselves, helping each team member and helping the team as a whole to SUCCEED.

Imagine what the team could achieve if we were all like train wire 13, and we interlinked with everyone in the team, the other teams in our department, and the organisation as a whole.

I thought of this example a while back; the organisation as a whole is the train, each department are all the different components (doors, brakes, safety systems, couplers, power) and your team is train wire 13 interlinking all the different components (departments) together.

Imagine what you, your team and the organisation could achieve then? Skies the limit.

All the best,

Tom Lawrence (Highly Effective Leader)