Team management ideas?

[Sundayjumper]

Yeah, boss’s son sounds like the issue here. If he doesn’t need this job and is basically marking time before taking over the family business he’s not ever going to be giving you 100%. Or 70%.

[Jimmy Choo]

Your remote guy is probably doing OE.

What’s that?

He meant Only Fans.

[Gavster]

I dunno who this Benay chap is but he sounds like a pretty cool guy

But if they're just Being A Problem, getting them to come up with ideas as to how whatever it is being a problem, can be not a problem in future (IE are comms issues causing things to slip? OK, daily 3pm progress reports between themselves that they feed back to you) - it gives them a stake in operations and is more likely to make them stick to it, and stay engaged.

I'm generally a fan of enabling people to work better off their own backs, with me using my extensive experience of being poorly managed to help direct that, so they don't have to go through what I've gone through (lack of direction, poor comms, no wider scale goals, not caring if the job goes away (it's just a job) etc).

Lol Benay is a mildly hungover-typed version of Beany

I think that's the solution; put in better communication, plus systems, structures and commitments to help them do a better job. I've always got their back because they're all nice guys, so I genuinely want them to do well, plus their performance has a direct impact on my repuation in the business. I'm gonna start building this out, even simple things like getting an AI assistant to summarise our daily standups so I don't have to fall back on my notetaking so much.

Also, ironically, the slacker called me unprofessional for getting pissed off at them on Friday

Yeah, boss’s son sounds like the issue here. If he doesn’t need this job and is basically marking time before taking over the family business he’s not ever going to be giving you 100%. Or 70%.

Here's the wild thing, he probably doesn't get paid from his father's company. He probably gets looked after and somewhere to live, but unlikely he gets any money as he's expected to take over the firm in the future, he's like an intern to his father and learning the business. So he probably needs this work to pay for having a social life etc, and we pay him very well for the country he lives in.