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<p>1. Try to ignore him</p> <p>2. Deport him to another department</p> <p>3. Take the challenge and be prepared for the competition</p> <p>4. Support him </p> <p>5. Start a war to ruin him</p> <p>6. Frustrate him and kill his motivation</p> <p>7. Something else?</p>
Having an excellent employee is a sign that i am also excellent in my management. Therefore, i my turn will be forming a threat to a higher management and that is normal. Ruining an employee or sending him to another department is not a normal action. If the company is built on solid grounds, it will be having a clear policy of promotion to its employees. this means the employee will be expecting to after certain years and having a certain experience that he/ she will be moved to another department, promoted...Bottom line if each manager stays afraid that the employee will threaten him then no company will stay in action and employees will be busy fighting each other instead of building their future.
My challenge is for the higher management position not for my current one
Support him, while supporting myself too!
An excellent employee is NEVER a threat to my position. He is rather a gain to my position; because he/she will directly or indirectly improve my performance, being admittedly a competitive person. But this same competitive nature commands that if he/she is truly better than me, then he/she deserves it! Period! I don’t see myself being content with being "favoured" for a higher position that does not correspond with my "level of excellenece", while there are others who may be a better fit.
I may be out of this world, but I never see, have never seen & will never see a well-performing colleague as a threat, whether aiming for my position or not! It's absurd! That's probably why I have a natural aversion towards envious & jealous people who're too lazy to stand-out through their own effort, but seem to possess a supernatural power when it comes to defamatory envying others.
It is a question of mind-set and psychological programming, and according to my mind-set, competition has nothing to do with envy or jealousy but more with being good, becoming better and ending best! And if I cannot be the best, then I most probably did have a good run at it, which is good enough. It is excellence in itself to be a good loser to a better winner!
That's how self-improvement is achieved & that's how "competition" reaches its highest definition, devoid from greed, cheating, contradiction, laziness, envy and selfishness!
3. Take the challenge and be prepared for the competition
I will choose the number3 (Take the challenge and be prepared for the competition) in addition, learn new and more from his/her experience, form a solid team for the benefit of the company.
Obviously you need to Take the challenge and be prepared for the competition in a healthy atmosphere.
It would be3 &4. The day you start feeling apprehensive over competition, you will stop growing. Competition in the form of an excellent employee should only spur you to take on greater challenges and excel. If you are equally good or better, you are at an advantage because you are higher up in the pecking order and if the organisation promotes him to your position, you would only move higher and not down.
Also do not forget, if the employee is a direct reportee or you are his line manager then all his good work will eventually earn you credit for being his manager.
Do your best and give him the chance
No one live more than100 years
Challenge is the best key for your success. It is not about challenging others , it is about challenging your self that you can do it cause you own a very strong confidence that you can do it. Competition can be a factor of motivation to push you t the extra mile , sometimes you may find new things you think you don't know it. I believe in the quotation " the right person in the right place" so everyone should take his opportunity and get it .
3 and4, and eventually promote him. they day i will define myself just thru the current position, and work only towards preserving it, is the day i will know it's time for me to retire :)
4. I support him by all means, so that I can learn more from him--an advantage for the present and future.
The third option is o.k. but it will create more problems..if you are not able to come up perhaps it may spoil the self confidence (not necessary)..slow and steady wins the race. Other things I believe, having no professional ethics and values.
