The best people I have worked with have a striking quality:
Trust and autonomy.
When you commit to them on Monday that you will deliver a project by next Thursday, they don’t nag you on a Wednesday “just so you remember” the task.
They trust not only your capabilities, but also your commitments. And that you will honour them.
An astonishing part is that someone nagging and following up with you before due date has got nothing to do with you. Our insecurities and disappointments from past experiences make us behave in a certain way.
The only way to be in such a work relationship is become someone who delivers their work, no matter what. And if you don’t, you inform in advance.
So that, when you get in a position of working with excellent performers, you reward them not only with money, opportunities and experience—but also trust.
Let people working with you experience the thrill of working. Not a lack of will 🙂