Don’t manage more experienced team members

In this blog, I will provide few tips for Managers on how to efficiently work with team members who are more experienced than you.

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Many managers face a situation in which they have to manage team members who are more experienced than themselves. There is always a dilemma on how to work with them.

Well, acknowledging that they are part of the team is a good starting point. Many managers make a mistake of ignoring such team members.

Making assumptions about more experienced team members on their expectations, thought process is not the right way to manage or work with such team members.

In this blog, I will share few tips on how to manage team members who are more experienced than you.

Reality check

Let’s first try to understand about the situation of these more experienced team members; only then as a Manager you will know how to manage them.

1. Skill set may not be up-to-date
   Many more experienced team members are retained due to their knowledge and expertise on legacy systems and softwares. Since they are busy taking care of the legacy systems or softwares, the need to update the skill set might have not got created. But don’t…