9 Coworker Personality Conflicts
Arrogance
Arrogance is the byproduct of unhealthy levels of pride and ego, and dealing with arrogant people takes a lot of patience and a great deal of self-control. Learning to identify the people who have this trait and avoiding them asmuch as possible will protect your own reputation, whereas confronting the arrogant person may only make you lookworse.
"One-Upmanship" And Posturing
At your workplace, you'll see plenty of qualified people, and that alone can create an unusually competitiveatmosphere. In addition, some coworkers feel the need to exaggerate their accomplishments, pad their resumes andpretend to have a frantic pace in a pathetic attempt to portray themselves as busy "rising stars". You have twochoices: get the heck out of there or, just as nobly, focus on over-delivering. At the end of the day, business resultsand performance are the only real sources of credibility.
Irritability And Short Fuses
In the workplace, there is a need for the constant exchange of accurate, relevant and timely information.Unnecessary short fuses reduce or prevent this flow of information, and irritability is a barrier to people doing their jobs. If someone does something bad to you, take it up with that particular person first. Take solace in the fact thatthose who act irritably without showing impressive, credible and sustained results, will simply have the "idiot" labelstamped across their foreheads.
Inauthentic Relationships And Hidden Motives
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eing authentic is an important underpinning of effective leadership. In the real world, certain people will always havehidden agendas and motivations. While good friendships will help the workplace setting be more enjoyable, the wiseprofessional will have to be discerning in choosing who his or her friends are. As George Washington said, "
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ecourteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
Procrastination
Procrastination is a symptom of overconfidence, apathy or lack of focus. Smart people with a solid track record atschool and prior work experiences may come to believe that they can "always step things up" at the right time andcan afford slacking off here and there. Some workers find their particular job to be dull, and procrastination becomesthe thrill-seeker's way of getting a rush out of attempting to finish a work project in highly condensed time frames.Quality of work is the first casualty, and the procrastinator's job quickly becomes the second.
Reckless Spending
The competitive atmosphere in a professional office can spill over outside of work, where coworkers compete to havethe latest sports car, expensive watches, lavish travels and lush apartments. Wasteful spending only makes theworkplace even more unnecessarily competitive; you have high income earners who are constantly broke, fighting for every scrap and crumb of bonus in the bonus pool.
Sabotage
The saboteur of the group takes competitiveness to a truly dysfunctional level. There can be various motivations for sabotaging a team's or department's efforts. There isn't much you can do to protect yourself from these saboteurs
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