James Waldroop and Timothy Butler suggest that you coach them. Good coaching is simply good management. It requires many of the same skills, such as keen powers of observation, sensible judgment, and an ability to take appropriate actions. Waldroop and Butler stress that the key to coaching is to be imaginative and to look for a variety of solutions.
Effective coaches know the questions to ask in evaluating a situation.
They know how to assess problem behaviors and how to calibrate their own coaching abilities. An effective coach also draws on a wide variety of coaching techniques to help a manager change problem behaviors. Coaching must reflect the complexity and difficulty of genuine efforts to change behavior. Executives increasingly recognize that it is people management skills that are the key both to their personal success and to the success of their business. And being an effective coach is a crucial part of successful people management.