Getting Along with a Biased Tormentor

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

How do you interact with a senior person who should be mentoring you but is instead giving you every reason not to trust them? Amy G recommends tactics to try and phrases to use.

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0:00.0	Once your business gets to a certain size, the cracks start to emerge.
0:05.4	Things you used to do in a day take a week.
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0:12.8	Learn more when you download NetSuite's popular KPI checklist,
0:16.9	absolutely free at NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:21.2	That's NetSuite.com slash women at work.
0:25.4	I'm Amy Gallo, and this is Getting Along, a series where I help a guest and you and
0:33.6	everyone else listening learn to work with anyone, even difficult people.
0:41.7	By difficult, I mean rude, unprofessional, or hostile, bad behavior that wears us down.
0:48.8	No one should have to grin and bear it.
0:51.2	Change is possible, but the answer isn't to suppress our emotions or hope the problem
0:56.0	person leaves, neither is retaliating or shaming them.
1:00.6	These are lessons I've picked up from being a career coach, studying conflict, and spending
1:05.4	the past couple of years reading about behavioral science and interviewing researchers for a
1:10.4	book.
1:11.4	It's also called Getting Along.
1:15.1	Tending to our toughest work relationships is worth the trouble.
1:19.1	After all, they loom large in our lives and have a disproportionate impact on our experiences.
1:25.3	The path to improving them starts with understanding why certain types of difficult people act
1:31.3	the way they do, then using tactics and phrases to match that type.
1:36.6	Little by little, you can build a functional relationship for the sake of your sanity and
1:41.8	career.
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