Your high performer is checked out. Now what?

One of the most difficult things to do as a manager is to deal with an employee who just isn’t feeling it and remains unmotivated for a long period of time. Everyone has their days when they’d rather be anywhere else but at work, but what do you do when a direct report consistently fails to bring energy and enthusiasm to their work? I’m going to focus here on working with someone who was working well at one point, but has since checked out. (Someone who never engages with their work may be a…