CareerMysteries

Getting along well with others in the workplace is a vital precursor to potential promotability.  All to often, an employee is discounted as having management potential because they are difficult or tend to be on the bad side of conflict situations too often.

What does it take to have the kind of harmony you need to demonstrate?  For one, it takes patience with others and a big picture view of your job.  One of the main causes of workplace disagreements is when people clash with one another because they care too much about little things like turf, status, titles and small differences in wages.

Get past the pettiness at work.  Try to be objective, logical and level headed in all your interactions.  You don’t need to become best buddies with your work mates, but you need to treat them with common courtesy and respect.  Hopefully, they will treat you with more of the same. 

If you are faced with an unreasonable person and have no recourse besides conflict, take your supervisor into your confidence and explain the problem.  Working together with them to resolve issues is better than trying to go it alone and risk being misunderstood.