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

Coaching Real Leaders

Harvard Business Review / Muriel Wilkins

Executive, Business/careers, Leadership, Careers, Business/management, Sessions, Hbr, Coaching, Review, Society & Culture, C-suite, Leaders, Harvard, Business, Management

4.8 • 660 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This episode is part of a new special series from HBR’s Women at Work, hosted by Amy Gallo – an expert in workplace dynamics. Each episode offers tactics for dealing with “difficult” people at work. Every workplace has them, but what if we had better tools and approaches to improve our interactions with those colleagues? In this episode, Amy helps a leader whose boss keeps rejecting any changes she recommends. By the end of the conversation, she has the advice she needs to communicate her proposals in a way that will get approval and feel less stress when interacting with her boss. Look for “Getting Along” in Women at Work’s feed.

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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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