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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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  • Hi Paula,

    There may be some comfort in knowing that you are not the only person who is dealing with such a situation, this is a common issue.

    People will treat you the way you allow them to treat you. Therefore, if your colleague believes you will cover for them, then they will continue with their sub-optimal behaviour.

    You mentioned you "tried nice ways to communicate with her during working with her..." perhaps you need to adopt a more robust response.

    Robert Cialdini, a psychologist, notes a way to influence the behaviour of a person is, commitment and consistency, i.e. you get someone to commit to something and they tend to want to be consistent with that commitment.

    To use this concept in your work environment you could consider agreeing task allocations between you and your colleague, agreeing same in writing, including a commitment to advise each other if you are behind schedule. Then each and every time your colleague fails to meet their commitments they need to be informed of this, verbally or better still in writing. As time progresses, and if your colleague fails to meet their commitments you will have considerable evidence to present to your manager. If your manager fails to act, then you would need to go over their head to their manager and present the same evidence.

    This would not be easy, but without change things will remain the same.

    Also, if you did move job, who's to say you would not encounter such an individual again!!!

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