I hired a new team member, he’s about 40. At the interview he seemed polite and easy to talk to, and for the first two weeks he worked well with clients. But lately he’s been getting more and more...

Possible reasons,:
1. He might have noted some substantial salary difference between him and colleagues. If you can assure him of your concerns or... just go ahead to supprise him on the next payment schedule before you even engage him if you really need this guy.

2. There could also be poisonous employees/colleagues who have spoken I'll about the job. So he now does not value the job until it gets out of his hands. Immediate and private cautioning is urget if the situation is like that.

3. Check his distance from work to office and possibly his means of mobility. He may be getting stressed by distance, traffick, transportation difficulties and possibly insufficient sleeping time. Discuss with him to ascertain this possibility.

4. After getting a job at age 40, he is possibly glued or addicted to social media at night, making him restless and lacking concentration at work.
He needs friendly advise before he looses his job and go back home to begin another job hunting.

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Please how do you cope with non-chalant staffs as a senior colleague. Staffs that are so complacent when you give them task to do and are always full of excuses but they are good at their skills, i...

Remember that these actions will cost you money.

Please how do you cope with non-chalant staffs as a senior colleague. Staffs that are so complacent when you give them task to do and are always full of excuses but they are good at their skills, i...

Assign external auditor on them half annually.
This is not necessarily to check them for any flaws but just to keep them to the heat.

Also, you may... engage the services of intelligents graduate interns and or attachments. Assign them to these nonchalant employees to account or report on them weekly.

Trust me, some of these interns can introduce stiff competition within the staff. Intentionally, religate some of their duties to these intelligent graduate interns .
On the days when they are unable to report to work for whatever reason, ask them to hand over to their keys to their interns.

They would sit up!  more

Can you give me some advice? My boss comes to me many times a day and keeps asking if I’ll finish my tasks on time. I always say yes as I’ve never missed a deadline. But his questions distract me and...

Yes, I agree with Naomi.
Just so that he can clearly see real time progress on the job.

Alternatively, you can respectfully break the rigidity and... freely be able to tell him how you feel if he frequents update on your task.

He has broken his rigidity so why not you. He expects that you break that tension and be able to freely work with him.

You would contribute to his experience if you can do that.  more