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How to demotivate team members
I’m sure you’ve been there.
You’ve spent hours perfecting the plan, creating the story, building the case, analysing the risk or whatever critical task you’ve been given. Often, it’s at the last minute and that evening you had planned is now caressing your laptop and cursing that you’ve missed your class, or your date, or simply time with the family.
You pass your work onto your Product/Project Manager and….. nothing.
They take it, read it, and if you’re lucky you get a thanks.
It then finds its way into the slide deck being prepared for the Board and the PM then disappears to present the slides that you created.
If that was the end of the story, it would just be poor management, but often it’s not the end of the story.
The slides weren’t clear enough, the PM didn’t put enough effort into the delivery, or they raised more questions. The PM then comes back and tells you that the slides didn’t cut it and we need to improve them for next time.
You feel demotivated and wonder ‘why bother’?
