180: {Biz Tip Friday} How to Lead Someone on Your Team More Successful Than You
Your Virtual Upline Podcast
Bob Heilig
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 September 2020
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
I've got a tricky question for you…
What do you do when somebody on your team becomes more successful than you?
Or, let's say one of your downlines hits a rank that you've never hit before?
Do you feel threatened? Or do you feel genuinely happy for them?
Unfortunately, I see that most leaders view this as a threat. A downline out-ranking you creates a red light story that you're not good enough as a leader or that you're an impostor.
In this Biz Tip Friday, I'll teach you how to shift your perspective to help you navigate this sensitive issue and lead your team from a space of LOVE.
Episode Quotes
"A good leader allows people to have the space to flourish and grow."
"Being genuinely happy for someone else's success (even if it's greater than your own) demonstrates the true character of a leader."
Listen to Learn
01:11 - Is your downline succeeding faster than you?
02:48 - The 'feeling needed' dilemma
04:59 - Changing your leadership story
07:52 - Leading from a space of love
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Bob here and welcome back to the Your Virtual Upline Podcast where we give Network |
| 0:12.4 | marketers the mindset, strategies, and skills that you need |
| 0:17.2 | to build a business and life of your dreams. |
| 0:22.3 | Hey Bob here, welcome back to the show another episode of Biz Tip Friday today. |
| 0:26.7 | I want to help you navigate the often tricky issue of what do you do when somebody on your team becomes more successful than you? |
| 0:40.4 | So how do you handle as a leader someone else in your down line progressing and |
| 0:46.3 | succeeding at a faster rate than you? How do you handle when somebody hits a rank |
| 0:50.8 | that you've never hit before. I know that if you've ever had this happen, this can sometimes |
| 0:58.4 | create real issues for you, whether they're outward issues, or really just things that are happening in your mind. |
| 1:06.0 | I know a lot of times when somebody on our team does better than we do, it often really threatens our identity as a leader and our belief and confidence in |
| 1:17.0 | ourselves. So I want to I'm going to give you a totally different way to look at it |
| 1:20.1 | but I also want to deal with from more of an strategic side of things, how do you lead |
| 1:27.8 | somebody that is more successful than you? |
| 1:31.6 | And so the inspiration for this episode actually came from a coaching call that we did inside of my next level leadership coaching program and basically here was the situation. |
| 1:42.0 | Maybe you've dealt with this, maybe you haven't, but if you haven't, |
| 1:45.2 | there's a valuable lesson here that will serve you well moving forward in your business. |
| 1:49.4 | This particular person had built a successful business, but she had a leader on her team that hit a big rank in their company that she had been pushing for for over a year but hasn't wasn't yet able to hit. |
| 2:01.0 | And it wasn't that she had a bad relationship with this person, but this particular |
| 2:05.7 | person on her team, this girl, did not want any leadership from her. So like she just kind of wanted to do her own thing. She didn't want to be a part of this |
| 2:16.3 | person's team group. She didn't want to be a part of her calls, right? It wasn't that they had a bad |
| 2:20.9 | relationship, but she just wanted to break off into her own thing |
| 2:24.4 | and the combination of these events of somebody else being more successful than her |
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