Three Key Ingredients For Repairing A Work Relationship

Read Gregg’s most recent article featured on the Forbes Coaches Council.

Recently, a coaching client who is a specialist in software sales told me she’d lost respect for a colleague who’d engaged in bullying behavior toward her and others on their team.

The backstory: They’d all been working from home during the pandemic, and the constant stress to perform, compounded by Zoom fatigue and a frustratingly tough market environment had put everyone on edge. But one of her colleagues had become particularly short and nasty over the many months of lockdown. Then, during a team meeting, the person had unfairly denigrated my client’s work. Her boss didn’t address it, instead acting as if it hadn’t happened. But my client did get a private chat message from a co-worker, asking if she was all right. She wasn’t. She was furious.

Still, determined to prove that she was tough and could be a team player, she set out to find a way to keep working productively with her disrespectful colleague without having to tolerate the abuse or make a formal complaint to the human resources department. So, she approached me, asking if there was something she could do on her own.

“Is it possible,” she asked, “to repair and rebuild a relationship with a colleague after you’ve lost respect for them?”

To find out what Gregg’s 3 Key Ingredients are go to the full article on Forbes.