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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

815: How to Get Along with Anyone at Work with Amy Gallo

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

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4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Amy Gallo shares how to constructively deal with difficult people at work.


— YOU'LL LEARN —  

1) The massive costs of bad relationships at work

2) How to build your immunity to criticism

3) How to work well with eight key types of difficult people


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— ABOUT AMY —  

Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review. She is the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict and Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone, and a cohost of HBR's Women at Work podcast. Her articles have been collected in dozens of books on emotional intelligence, giving and receiving feedback, time management, and leadership. As a sought-after speaker and facilitator, Gallo has helped thousands of leaders deal with conflict more effectively and navigate complicated workplace dynamics. She is a graduate of Yale University and holds a master’s from Brown University.

• Book: Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People)

• Book: HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict (HBR Guide Series) 

• Podcast: Women at Work

• TEDx Talk: "The Gift of Conflict"

• Website: AmyEGallo.com


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —  

• Study: “Why We Need Best Friends at Work” by Annamarie Mann

• Study: “Managing a Polarized Workforce” by Julia A. Minson and Francesca Gino

• Study: “Conversational receptiveness: Improving engagement with opposing views” by Michael Yeomans, et al.

• Book: Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns

• Book: Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety by David Burns

• Book: The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories by Danielle Evans

• Past episode: 001: Communicating with Inspiration and Clarity with Mawi Asgedom


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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.

0:04.2

The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required

0:08.6

to flourish at work.

0:10.1

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McIdoz.

0:16.1

Hello and welcome to episode 815 with Amy Gallo.

0:23.3

Is there anyone at work you find difficult to get along with perhaps?

0:27.5

Well, Amy's got some pro tips on how you can, in fact, get along with anyone.

0:32.6

You'll learn one, the massive costs of bad relationships at work, two, how to build

0:37.2

your immunity to criticism, and three, how to work well with eight key different types

0:41.8

of difficult people.

0:42.8

So, if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to items that

0:45.4

we've mentioned, please visit us at awesometyourjob.com slash ep815 and while at awesometyourjob.com, check

0:52.2

out some of our goodies like the full text transcripts, some good emails, stuff, and a whole

0:57.1

lot more at awesometyourjob.com.

0:58.7

Now, here's Amy's story.

1:00.5

Amy Gallo is a contributing editor at Harvard Business Review.

1:03.0

She's the author of the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict and Getting Along, how to work

1:07.2

with anyone and a co-host of HBR's Women at Work podcast.

1:11.3

Her articles have been collected in dozens of books on emotional intelligence, giving

1:15.4

and receiving feedback, time management, and leadership.

1:18.6

As a sought after speaker and facilitator, Gallo has helped thousands of leaders deal

1:22.8

with conflict more effectively and navigate complicated workplace dynamics.

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