| Work on building up the skills they are missing, whether its technical or soft skills? Being a lead sometimes means you have to prioritize team growth/output over your own for the medium to long term. If you're in a startup that needs to produce a product yesterday then you may need to walk away as the company hired wrong, but if you are in charge of just a team in a company then its time to grow them. When I have been in this situation the first step I take is to articulate where I want my team members to be, then deciding on the plan to get them there. It is an easy trap to fall into, to just complain about the current talent you have, but that will just build resentment and not create any improvement. You should define what behaviors you want them to exhibit first. Then build a plan on how to get them from where they are, to where you want them to be, then start working with them to implement that plan. Your 2 major possible impediments are going to be 1) having a boss who wants no change to the situation, in case you have been set up to fail and should look for a new job 2) an employee who accepted the job under certain terms that you are now changing. That is not their fault, but is one of those situations HR likes to describe as needing "managerial courage", where you either need to move the person on to their next role(most places this means shitcanning, but the moral choice is to tap your network and help them find a better suited role) or help them get with the program The absolute worst choice is to just accept whats going on and let everyone deal with a shitty situation that breeds resentment until someone or everyone blows up and the whole team turns over. Edit: I wrote that up somehow having glossed over your comment that you don't manage people and your boss isn't technical. You have been set up to fail If you have no control over people on a team but are responsible for their output you are the software equivalent of a supervisor at McDonalds. Either don't rock the boat and just collect a paycheck, or find a new job if it bothers you on a deep level. There is no solution to this situation. If your boss is not technical and already realized his deficiencies he would have empowered you. Being responsible for a team without the power to manage them means you are just a meat shield for the first time something goes wrong. |