Just because you have experience in success, does not mean that your success is the success others want.
Explanation:
This one is a bit of a long term learning experience for myself.
Over time I have talked to lots of people who have each educated me on this subject, but 3 stand out
Person 1) Was a new team member for a client, who I assumed would want to go into management, I explained its virtues and pushed for it. What I didn’t do was actually ask them if they actually WANTED to do management… They didn’t, this simple failing of mine was pointed out to me by a colleague.
Person 2) Was a senior staff member who was also very good at another task I wanted. I asked them if they wish to take that task further. It would involve more money, it would involve a promotion etc, etc.. They simply said No, they enjoy their current job. They did it well. They did not want to do another job badly by working in an area they did not enjoy, I would say they were, and still are; a wise person.
Person 3) The third person that taught me this lesson simply had a different path that they were going down. it was not that they did not see my route to success as valid, but if they had followed it it simply would not have resulted in them achieving their goals, since then they have followed their own route and found their own success.
In all of these situations I had made an assumption based on my experience and my view point on the world, without checking whether one human would want to do the same as another human, ultimately that is the management lesson here, you and the people under your care may have the same project goals but it is very unlikely that they hold the same long term success aims, part of your responsibility is to work this out and help them achieve it.
Such people will help you more than you could ever imagine.
Disclaimer: As always these posts are not aimed at anyone client or employer and are just my personal observations over a lifetime of dealing with both management and frontline associates.