A new team (two members and a lead) was recently formed to provide technical support for a new product. I started a few weeks before the second member and built up some knowledge and resources. As soon as the new member joined, I shared everything I had.
Two tasks were put to the team and we decided that we would meet to discuss the best way forward. However, the new team member has spent a great deal of time to move forward with the task without discussing it with me and sharing any of the documentation until I mentioned it today.
This makes me think that there is potential for competition conflict to arise, and for such a small team this would be a big problem.
I would like to know how best to handle this? Is it possible to keep somebody like this onside without directly addressing the issue? At this stage, it would seem petty to me to ask why he had not discussed a team task for which we are both responsible before going ahead.
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