What are you going to do if one of your workmates don't cooperate?
By Xarex
@xarex777 (467)
Philippines
October 21, 2009 8:11am CST
Hi guys..
I would like to hear from you because I'm having a hard time with my work because one of my workmates don't cooperate with what we are doing as a team. He always do something with his own and don't even share what he is doing. As a team, we need to know what everyone's doing but it seems that our supervisor have not noticed it yet..
Maybe because he's building some "nice talk" with our supervisor so maybe that's the reason why they don't observe him much..
3 responses
@ElsaElsa (323)
• United States
21 Oct 09
This situation is very common in office settings. When I faced this situation at work, I spoke with my manager and he advised me to speak the my co-worker directly in a very professional tone without sounding mean or putting him down in anyway. The way to approach such people is to schedule a one-to-one meeting with this person and discuss the issue. Ask questions in the manner of explaining team goals, milestones, and group effort. Ask him questions about his ideas about building a uniform team and what he is willing to do and how he is willing to assist in helping the team succeed. These are only suggestions. A good person to start with would be your manager. But be sure not to complain or sound irritated with the person. You don't want to send mixed messages about your personal attitude towards the co-worker. I hope this helps.
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@xarex777 (467)
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
Yes that's right. But it seems that he is having a "nice talk" with our sales manager.. Will I not be putting myself into danger if I'm going to tell our manager that he's not cooperating with us? I agree that he's doing his job well but he's always making thing on his own and our manager seems to overlook his participation in our team..
@ElsaElsa (323)
• United States
22 Oct 09
Well, you should not go complaining to your manager if you fear that it'll turn against you. But instead approach your manager on behalf of the entire team and impacts of lack of contribution on the project. However, it is clear from your concern that you do not feel comfortable approaching your manager. Have you tried arranging group meetings in which the agenda is to update the team about your contributions and progress. This could turn into a discussion in which this particular person is forced into sharing his contributions and progress and taking suggestions from the team to improve or take help from others. This is what we used to do at work, every week we'd have status meetings in which each member of the team has to share what is keeping them busy, how they are following up with deadlines etc.
@moneymakingtoday (4061)
• Philippines
21 Oct 09
maybe u can try reaching out to him. talk to him about the importance of working as a team. point out to him that cooperation from each member of the team is paramount to succeed. let him feel that he is a member of the team, ask suggestions from him and value it..be transparent with the workings of the team.
@getbrowser (1708)
• China
21 Oct 09
In fact, I have never such a situation before.
Yes, as members of a team, people should to share what they are doing in order to improve the efficiency of teamwork. If not, the team won't gain any big and ripe fruits at last. Of course, you'd better try your best to communicate with your workmate so that he can do something together with others of your team.
Don't ingore him if you want to make some achievements at last.
