Dealing With Difficult Colleagues
December 12, 2008
Many a time we have faced petty arguments at office or generally discouraging disagreements with colleagues over regular work-life issues, be it team-handling or project deliveries being failed. Some of us have managed to overcome the emotional stress linked with these small-time office rivalries due to having supportive family or friends or being involved in positive, life-changing activities or daily living philosophies like meditation, yoga, socializing or choosing to be stronger personalities at work so it affects us in lesser doses.
But, in some cases, difficult colleagues can manage to pull down the best of us and for these kind of extreme cases, we have just the right solutions for dealing with nasty co-worker who get under your skin; take a look below:
To deal successfully with difficult colleagues, especially the over-bearing, always advice-giving types who can’t seem to find the ‘motivation’ to get the job done on their own and are yet constantly telling you how to do yours, keep their inappropriate comments in check by laughing it off and walking away to do your thing. Nothing irritates a constant faultfinding walking advisory board type person than someone not affected by his or her words!
Don’t let it get to the point of your wanting to quit: focus on the better aspects of your annoying colleague if you can and control your reactions to their ill thought out actions (be it hanging around your work station, involving you in gossip or procrastinating over handing a report). Instead, keep calm; have the upper hand by being more mature about their petty attitude by adopting an easy-going one yourself and being diligent about exhibiting skills and qualities you were hired for. In totality, to deal with a difficult colleague, use wit and charm even when you least feel like exercising it and allow your work performance to always speak for your efforts, not your mood affected by your co-worker’s bad attitude and you’ll surely find success at work!
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