Timeline for Star developer didn’t get a promotion because he isn’t a people person, so he has scaled back his contributions. How can I motivate him?
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| Dec 3, 2019 at 16:58 | comment | added | WendyG | actually he is showing just how much managing he does | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 16:27 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | " He believes that he'd be a good leader." Judging from the edit to the question ("To clear up the issue"), this does not appear obvious to me. He may just want a fancy title, but he does not seem to be interested in the actual people work involved. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 15:58 | comment | added | Ronan Paixão | If you go that way, make sure the project is something he can't do all by his own, otherwise he'll do just that and the team assigned to him will hate it. It may also be a good idea to not assign him a team if he doesn't ask to, but make sure he knows he can do that. That way, he'll be overwhelmed if he isn't a good leader. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 14:10 | comment | added | rackandboneman | This is not even about him thinking to be a good leader or not. Some people simply want to be paid in power - and shortchanging their pay obviously creates friction, rightfully so. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 8:02 | comment | added | Justin | +1 to all of the above, although I would go with "interim director" and make it more than 1 project. He likely thinks that he can issue commands and then get on with coding. You know as well as I do that management is largely interrupt driven which is fundamentally incompatible with coding - 3 to 6 months of this maybe? | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 6:46 | comment | added | StumpedMoneyHacker | I offered this in the past and he declined, but perhaps he has had a change of heart. He is certainly skilled enough technically to guide an interesting and worthwhile project. | |
| Nov 30, 2019 at 6:40 | history | answered | Kevin | CC BY-SA 4.0 |