How to work with a colleague if he annoys you

How to work with a colleague if he annoys you



Unfortunately, not always the team at workconsists of friendly, pleasant people. It happens that some employees irritate others with their habits, traits or incompetence. But you can work with such personalities.





Establish boundaries in communication

















Set Borders

If you are irritated by a colleague, with whomneed to often encounter, try to immediately establish with him certain boundaries in communication. Do not be polite and go for rapprochement with a person who does not like you, you absolutely do not have to do it. On the contrary, keep a distance with this employee. Communicate strictly on work. When you do not like that a person violates your personal space, directly state it. Say that you are much more comfortable to communicate at a certain distance, and ask them to continue to keep the specified distance. Perhaps a couple of times you will have to remind a person of your arrangement, but in the end, if you have an adequate personality, you will achieve the desired effect. Perhaps, your colleagues are irritating with the manner of communicating. If he shows incontinence and allows himself to go over to personalities, do not hesitate to upset him and remind you that you are at work, where you should show less emotions, especially negative ones. Do not be afraid of conflict. If you are calm and tactful, the truth will be on your side. In extreme cases, you can ask management to put you in contact with other people.

Be wiser

Try to stay calm, even ifthe behavior of your colleague makes you angry. Imagine between you a wall that does not allow the negative coming from a person to reach you. Perhaps such visualization will help you remain indifferent in the presence of an annoying person. Do not give in to provocation from the side. Be stronger and wiser. Try to understand better the person you do not like. Maybe you are too critical of him. Try to put yourself in your colleague's place. Think about the fact that he may have objective reasons to behave in a certain way. Be tolerant of others. Maybe it irritates you in a person that he is completely unlike you. This attitude is not entirely fair. Do not take to heart what happens to you during the performance of work duties. Realize that work is not your whole life. Remember that you are a free person and have the right to independently change your place of work or profession. Sometimes understanding this removes unnecessary stress and helps to more easily treat people with whom you have to communicate on duty.