As an EM it is our responsibility to assist my team members so that they can grow. So I want to narate one scenario where I helped team member grow and it provided me an enormous learning.
At hyperface when we were breaking monolith into micro service , there was a lot of work required at one of the component called integration service, this service was acting as a link between external bank system and hyperface Credit card as a service core engine . As work on this layer was more I moved one of the SDE-1 t that team , this team along with coding required lots of communication with business team as well , at that moment I found that the SDE-1 who was a good performer on core team started struggling in that team . I connected with him on 1:1 t ocheck is it because of he is not liking the work or is he having some personal issues as it was hard to digest that person who is doing well in solving complex problem is struggling with not as challenging issue , at that moment I found that he is having issues in his communication , he feels underconfident interacting with other team , out of pressure commits what ever other team says.
At that point fir I told him not to worry he is doing a good work and with him I created a framework to deal with this scenarios like always prepare before the meeting note done the important pointers , if you ae not sure d not commit always say I will get back after discussing with team , for any communication rather then personal messages include relevant stakeholders as this will provide help . and also told him that improving communication is not an over night job. As a result of which withing one month following this practices his communication improved and it started reflecting in his work.
Learning : to help people grow always try to assign them the different type of tasks so that they will become aware where they are lacking and then help them grow