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Unmotivated teammate - unfair?

Paula

Dear everyone,

Hope you are all well. I was wondering advise what I should do. 

I have a nice and friendly colleague in HR department, I have a HR manager. My colleague and I share same KPI ( there is team KPI), we must work on tasks such as staff handbook, employee engagement survey analysis together , however based on my experience working with her, she is always very late, never turn up to meeting on time, always have a lot of excuses to delay the work or do the work , moods always fluctuating and I find her unprofessional , I tried nice ways to communicate with her during working with her, there was no progress, my manager knows however I have raised the problems with him subjectively but I think he is not going to do anything about it (or observe right now) .

I always initiate doing the projects and find it bit unfair for me to initiate all the time, can anyone suggest what I should have going forward? 

Thank you in advance,

Paula 

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  • Paula, gosh, you are in a situation so familiar and common and you have some sound advice already.

    As an aside, what I find curious is that this is in HR and so you might expect better from your manager as they most likely advise other managers on how to tackle performance issues and are not looking like they do that themselves. Very disappointing. I get HR are humans just like everyone else, we have good and capable managers and others who are less so. That said, we can't expect to tell other people how to manage if we don't step up ourselves.

    I would state the facts to the manager.
    *You have tried your best to address it yourself, as they would expect you to, and it's not worked.
    *You expect them to manage the situation.
    *It is impacting you, your work and could impact your engagement or even long term career.

    If they don't show you what you need, you might need to stop rescuing this other person by doing work they need to pick up on. It's hard and uncomfortable, especially if they are nice person, but in the end this is not nice behaviour and this is about you and your career. They are responsible for their career.

    Good luck.
  • in reply to Sharon
    Thank you so much. Apology it’s a late reply. But situation has not been better since last time.
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