How to Improve Your Relationships With a Difficult Colleague

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Sindy: I agree, this is the hardest thing when someone has made your work life miserable. The idea that you would have to find something to flatter them about is just, it's so unpleasant. But i think if you think about it less as something you're giving her ye and more as somethingYou're giving yourself, wichis this could be the pattern breaking action that helps loosen this dynamic? Maybe reduces all that stress and anxiety you're feeling every time you have to meet with her. And then go find the per on that enjoys working with this person.

Say someone on your team who had previously been friendly turns on you and is now making your life miserable and collaboration nearly impossible. Maybe they won’t respond to your emails or even look you in the eye?

This is the distressing situation that “Cindy,” a listener of Conferences for Women’s Women Amplified podcast, found herself in. Host Celeste Headlee, invited Amy Gallo on to help give Cindy advice as part of the show’s series “That’s a Good Question.” Cindy talks to Celeste and Amy about how she doesn’t even know what’s causing the tension. She can’t get answers from her colleague and doesn’t know how to continue working with someone who’s being so difficult.

The approaches that come out of the conversation are ones that anyone facing tension in a work relationship can use to find a way forward.

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