handle non-productive team members :: Extended

Some Bad Example of incidence.

One of my known manager, attitude to solve this problem:
He Asked Lead to go behind the member, means asked him to give result within the time line which is not feasible...So What would be the result of this?

As a result, lots of negative energy flows within the team which incrementally increse the problem in Team. Defenately this is the worst example of tried solution by any manager.
So what kind of rectification required to the solution attempted by that fellow manager.
On My view even though you have very sharp deadline, still try to take output gradually with such members. For Example if you have 'X' hrs task for that resource. Divide these task in a possible smallest segment, and assign one task segment to the resource, ones he completed that task, give him formal appreciation, and ones you feel his gesture for positive side assign more task segment to him/her...this is the approach where you get lots of benefit .. lets discuss now what are the benefits here to adopt this kind of approach.....
1. Small timeline task so even the person has very less dedication, with the sake of job he defenately will take opportunity to perform this task. Other benefit of this approach is backup plan. We can assign this task parallel to some new or less experience guys as a backup prepertion. Many other benefits also ...which we will discuss in next post..............

~Abinash Mishra

How do you handle non-productive team members?

Question. How do you handle non-productive team members?
Ans: First step is to understand the reason of non performance. One’s you analyze the reason than the next step, is to hit the right point to solve the problem. Though it might vary from person to person, still we can analyze the following area:
• Plan for skill set improvement
• Tech Lead should communicate with him/her friendly & face to face
• Offer proactive help to the employee
• Offer proactive suggestion in his/her weak area
• Importance of his/her presence in team
• Remind for their goal step by step
• Appreciate his/her good work
• Accept his/her drawback, as a challenge
• Give them ownership, and watch the progress closely
• Remember punishment is not the solution
• Always make competitive environment