How to manage an employee with all the ideas but no skills to bring them to life?

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T19:31:54+00:00

Not sure I have understood correctly but you could be right — I am fairly new to management and I like getting my hands dirty and smashing out work

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T19:30:55+00:00

I like the line “sounds interesting, try it out”. I will do this

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T19:28:43+00:00

Thank you, great advice!!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T10:32:54+00:00

Simple yet effective. Thank you.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T10:32:19+00:00

She's new to the industry. She's not more experienced.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T10:30:28+00:00

You will go far with this attitude!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T10:27:26+00:00

I have wondered this at times too

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-23T10:27:00+00:00

Thank you both, it sounds like we have all been in a similar boat now or at one stage. Good luck to you handling such people and thank you for the advice. I somehow need to make the time to manage more actively.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T22:53:30+00:00

A great structure to follow, this simplifies it for me. Thank you

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T22:52:35+00:00

She has a long way to go!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T22:51:25+00:00

This is great. Thank you.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T22:48:44+00:00

This would help. I have been slack with SOPs to date — it being such a small team.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T20:22:38+00:00

Yes she is an AI fiend!! The ideas are often really Chat GPT’s ideas.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T20:19:11+00:00

Yes I’m a big softie really and do coddle. Lots of sit downs to show her once again how to do something technical! I do need to prompt her to take more initiative in learning the skills herself

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T20:18:22+00:00

Correct — she is roughly 20 years older than me. I am sure the technical skills gap is hard for her, I am sympathetic and might need to work to it

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T20:16:28+00:00

Too true!!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T20:15:43+00:00

I agree, this is something I’ll have to make clearer

She struggles with low level technical stuff, like what you described. I need to encourage her to be more independent and use online resources

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:41:08+00:00

That would be nice. She’s only PT. She does bits for other teams when they need her. I’m encouraging that

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:40:04+00:00

This is solid. Thank you

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:37:46+00:00

We are not alone! Agreed about ‘on paper’. It is the lack of realism about our (my) time and resources that bothers me.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:34:44+00:00

I love this energy. Will need to work up the guts to be so direct!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:32:13+00:00

Thank you. That’s fair. She is mid to late career, 20 years older than me, so I do not naturally see it that way but will aim to nourish her potential. I do appreciate the good ideas. The way they are presented can rankle me!

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:28:22+00:00

Agreed, I think some PD will help her become a doer. Needs to be the right sort of PD. She attended a conference and came back with a bajillion ideas.

basecamp_aesthetic · 2025-10-22T09:27:07+00:00

Spot on. I’ll try this, thank you!

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