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I do YouTube videos on solving the types of issues that come up when managing a team, to help those who managing GenZ and younger Millennials.
I'd love to know what kind of video would be useful to YOU! Thoughts? (Thanks in advance!)
Heidinni
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07/02/23 at 2:17AM UTC (Edited)
I am an elder millennial, and I have been a manager although am currently not one.
We have a coworker on our team who is kind of on the border of Gen Z/Millennial. My three managers and 3 other coworkers cannot understand where he is coming from most of the time. He joined the team acting like he was above all of us in experience and expertise, so he doesnt like to be told what to do. The rest of the team works exceptionally well together and we all help each other and try to stay on top of tasks to cover one another when the priorities pile up on one person. He is the only one who doesn't do this. He waits to start a task until the end of day that it is due, but doesn't do anything else all day. This leaves no open time for him to do other things, like more training, getting ahead on other tasks or doing shared tasks. He will flat out refuse to do one task just because he has another task due that day (that isn't time consuming enough to require 8 hours.) He also took advantage of our team several times by screwing us over during really busy times of the year and the month, always an excuse. We work remotely and the rest of us are great at it, but we are afraid he is going to ruin it for all of us. He wants special treatment and doesn't want to take responsibility for his own work. It's been really frustrating as he wants to argue with you every time you train him on something. He throws tantrums like a child, doesn't have the ability to listen and take notes without trying to debate about how there is a better way to do it than the process we have in place. Then he blames the people who train him for why he doesn't know what he should know by now. When the team is asked to go to the office once a week, he will pull things like not showing up and acting like he didn't know, but say he was on his way, then call out sick an hour later. When it's 11 am at that point and you were expected in the office at 8, that's not really team player mentality, and the rest of us suffer because of his laziness. If I could chalk it up to a generational thing that I could solve, I'd sure love to know the answers. The common courtesies of doing your part in a timely fashion and showing up on time when you're expected to work seem to be foreign to him. Not to mention the amount of PTO he has taken is absurd and he even cheated the system by lying just to screw us over more with an additional two weeks off. I am the region leader now and he is on my team. He is two hours ahead of me and when I log on and ask for an update on something he is doing, it is always as though he has been doing nothing all morning. Sometimes even until noon. I wish I knew how to help management with some fresh ideas because we are all out of them.
Alina FloreaPerformance Coach for Professionals Aiming High
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01/09/24 at 3:57PM UTC
Sometimes, the best way to help management is to create a documented case with all these behaviours that are not serving the team, collaboration, productivity or the organization at large, and have this person kicked out. When I say documented, it should list dates, details and unsatisfactory results of cooperation or produced by this person.
