How Can I Get Along with My “Difficult” Boss? (from HBR’s Women at Work)

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Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

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4.8 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Every workplace has “difficult” people. No matter how hard we try, getting along with these colleagues is tough. But if we had better tools and approaches, could we not just improve our interactions with them but maybe even turn them into allies?

This episode is an exclusive introduction to a new special podcast series from HBR’s Women at Work. It’s called “Getting Along” and is in Women at Work’s feed this September.

Each of the four episodes is hosted by Women at Work’s Amy Gallo. In this one, Amy speaks with a leader who is struggling in her new role because her boss (the company’s founder and CEO) keeps rejecting any changes she recommends. Amy helps her figure out how to communicate her proposals in a way that will get the approval she needs. It’s a useful conversation for anyone who needs to manage up more effectively and wants to feel less stress dealing with a challenging boss.

Amy is a sought-after expert in workplace dynamics, conflict, and communication and has helped thousands of leaders learn how to handle conflict at work. The series offers targeted tactics for dealing with tough coworkers, based on Amy’s book Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People), through one-on-one coaching sessions with guests who are dealing with difficult colleagues.

Listen to all four episodes of the “Getting Along” series at https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-women-at-work or wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Imagine a state where you can get from big cities to big nature in less than half an hour,
0:06.0	with some of the best quality of life in the nation.
0:09.1	Welcome to Minnesota, America's least stressed state.
0:12.7	Learn more at exploreminnesota.com slash live.
0:20.6	HBR Presents
0:21.9	Hi everyone, it's Muriel.
0:28.8	We're hard at work on our new season of coaching real leaders, and I'm excited to share that we'll begin dropping new episodes on October 3rd.
0:36.9	While we get these new episodes together, I have
0:39.4	something special to share with you this week. It's an episode from another Harvard Business
0:44.6	Review podcast hosted by my friend Amy Gallo. You may know Amy. She hosts HBR's Women at Work podcast,
0:52.3	which also has a new season launching in October, by the way.
0:56.1	I've been a guest on Women at Work a couple of times over the years.
0:59.6	If you haven't listened already, check out the episode where we talk about how to get more visibility at work and why that's so important for your career.
1:07.4	But Amy is also an expert in workplace conflicts and relationships, and that's the topic of her new special podcast series.
1:14.6	It's called Getting Along, and it's available in the Women at Work feed right now.
1:19.6	In each episode, Amy helps a guest who's dealing with a difficult colleague, like the woman whose manager leaves her out of important conversations.
1:29.2	Each episode offers practical research-back tools to help you build healthier relationships at work.
1:35.0	And that's important because the quality of our relationships at work affect our happiness,
1:39.3	our creativity, and our productivity. There's one particular episode in the Getting Along series that I really
1:46.9	love, and I want to share it with you here. The guest is a leader who reports directly to the
1:52.3	founder and CEO. She joined the company with the understanding that she would focus on creating
1:57.1	better operations and HR processes. But the CEO has rejected all of the changes
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