Your manager has asked you to work with a team member on a high stakes project. You have worked with this team member before, but you found this difficult as they were quite disorganised and often struggled to complete their tasks, leaving you to do most of the work. At the time, it was the first group project they had been involved in$,$ and they have worked on other projects successfully since then.

As you know this is a high$-$stakes project and client satisfaction is critical, you are concerned that you may encounter the same issues again; however, you appreciate that this is a good opportunity to improve your working relationship with them.

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Try to consider this from your team members perspective and think about what you could do to support them during the tasks.

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Raise your concerns about the team members disorganisation and behaviour with your manager as you want to be able to focus on your work to ensure it is delivered as per clients satisfaction.

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Explain to your team member that you will divide up the tasks and keep track of progress, so you dont end up completing most of the work yourself.

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Discuss your concerns about this task with your team member before the work starts and agree how to split the tasks between you as you know this is a high$-$stake client deliverable.