At our school, every class needs to make a so-called Maturaprojekt to complete the school successfully. In order to accomplish this, pupils get split in groups of three to four, and each one of them get assigned a teacher who should manage them.
So far so good – until a good ole friend of mine told me the following story about the group he has to manage:
Eek! These guys are bastards! They are too dumb to buy a resistor themselves… I literally do everything for them so that the project completes.
And indeed, he essentially did everything for the group. They needed a resistor, he fetched it. They needed an algorithm, he fetched it, and so on. The people never ever saw a Radio Shack, Library or datasheet website from the inside – but nevertheless, the project was nearing releaseability steadily.
To be perfectly honest – I can understand that the group does nothing. Why should they work themselves if an idiot is around who does all the work for them! Obviously, for a freak/geek/cool guy(like the average TamsPalm reader), working on an interesting project is fun – but in many many cases, employees are not at all interested in the work that they have to do and just do it to a$$ out a cheap buck.
Anyways, spoon feeding is a big no-no if you want to have useful employees working for you. But why ramble about employee management all over again – we looked at it some time ago(reposts in the next week – a big thank you to Joe!):
On Mentoring
I don’t want your money, buddy!
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