Timeline for How to deal with productive procrastinators?
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| Jan 11, 2018 at 9:43 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | Missing deadlines is indeed bad. You could consider giving him difficult tasks that are not on the time-critical line. On the other hand, envy is something that I would not accept in my group; in a nutshell, I tell envious people in my group always that everyone in that group has a reason to be there - some are better at X, some at Y, and not to envy someone just because they have an advantage at X. | |
| Jan 11, 2018 at 2:20 | comment | added | yukashima huksay | @CaptainEmacs The main problem is envy. And yes. We actually miss deadlines sometimes. That doesn't happen so often but the stress is always there. We him we should consider our team both one less and one more than how many people we have:D | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 17:49 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | @IamSoNotListening OP's question is a bit vague on why the behaviour is a problem (except that it riles them - and possibly colleagues). Do they miss deadlines? I think just being upset because that person is just so incredibly capable and therefore able to get away with something that lowly people don't, is not wise. I have had people like that - the job of a manager is to make others accept that no amount of envy is going to fix that and balance the interaction as to make the whole team better - unless there some other problem, of course. | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 13:13 | comment | added | Neo | @CaptainEmacs based on how I read the question, the OP has already tried that. My impression was the OP was running out of options.... | |
| Jan 9, 2018 at 11:35 | comment | added | Captain Emacs | This is the perfect recipe to achieve regression to mediocrity. It is advice how not to treat capable people. For capable people, tell them what you need, specify the constraints, give them the tools, and leave them alone. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 22:44 | comment | added | yukashima huksay | That wouldn't be a reasonable title for him because he is already having the best performance in his team. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 22:23 | comment | added | Jim Clay | It also has a good chance of causing him to look for another job, which according to OP would be undesirable. Not saying he shouldn't do a PIP, just pointing out the drawback. | |
| Jan 8, 2018 at 21:11 | history | answered | Neo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |