A few weeks ago, I saw a mother at Sherrie's (my daughter) school. She was scolding her daughter for crying and wanting a sweet that every other child had received. They were standing in front of the school door, blocking the path of parents waiting to pick up their children. As the girl continued crying, the mother and grandmother couldn't understand why she was crying over a sweet.

You have already achieved success by being promoted to a management role, but as one of the best leadership thinkers and coaches, Marshall Goldsmith, said, “What got you here, won’t get you there.” This means you need to build a strategy, strengthen some of your current skills and start working on the new ones that you haven’t even started using yet. Here are five good strategies you could try: