How to handle non-productive team members?

In project Management sometime you meet with the non productive team. As a project manager how do you get the task done from this type of team. Means how do you handle non-productive team members?


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It is the responsibility of the project manager to ensure that the team's output meets the performance requirements stated in the project definition and delivers the goals of the project.

Why a team member would be a non productive? Either he is not up to that level of his work means his skill set is weak. So the answer is coaching/mentoring. Ask Tech Lead to communicate with him frequently & face to face. Don’t wait for the task to complete go to his seat, talk friendly, ask indirectly what he is doing and give your suggestions. Don’t point him forward some good article to whole team. Give your feedback early to the member. Indirectly share your experience about the problems he is facing. Realize him that he the important valuable member of the project team and you have lot of expectations from him.

Second thing is , some team members are careless or your environment is not productive. The solution is, explain clearly what is expected from the team. Don’t wait for status report, communicate frequently with team and remind their goals step by step goals.
Appreciate the members who are doing good work. Involvement is the key to handle non productive members. Don’t assign them work through mail. First meet with team, explain the goals, divide the goals into parts & Let the team members pick tasks of their own choice. That will make them more responsible for their task. I think in this way you can change their professional attitude.




Manoj Kumar Gupta Said..

First of all I want to say that I am customer care excutive in Back-office and My point of veiw that
first of all you check yourself where are you wrong or
right if you don't have any feedback than sortout the problem because of your team is non-productive where is your chain is week sortout and do work on that first mantra that is you behave to yr member whichtypes behave like you make behavier they feavor of you sometimes be strik and all the time
very good with them. Secondthings want to say most of the members do politics becasue of that they don't be productive so break them always be successful.




manoj kumar Gupta Said..

thirds things always make comptetive environment.




A.varalakshmi Said..

Its really very usefull for the TL, TM , GL




D I C K Y Said..

As per my point of view the person who is not performing well than you should know his or her problem directly or indirectly. After knowing his or her problem you should meet him personally and give him motivation. Find some plus point in him and appreciate on his plus point and make him habitual to listen this so he will 100% try to give his best where he is lacking.




Narendra Said..

My openion is if the team member is a under performing then reason needs to be find as he may be technically weak where mentoring is required or he may be having personal problems due to which his performance is affected hence first try to understand him and then take a decision/ act on the action.




Aparna Said..

It is PMs responsibilty to understand why a team member is not performing. There could be various reasons : 1. He may not be able to understand the goals of the project - in this case we need to sit and tell him what are the goals of the project. 2. he may be underqualified for the work, then training might help him.Here micromanagement may also be required.3. Some enviornmental factors that might be impacting his work. PM needs to understand and work on same accordingly.




Saravana Said..

All team members should be treated equally it makes the positive energy in the team. The leader should know the objective of the work. He is in a position to solve the problems of the team members and leader could be easily reachable to all. The team outings with family members bring the bonding in the team personally.




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