Episode 73. Getting Along: Strategies & Insights To Help You Work With Anyone – Amy Gallo

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Looking for strategies and insights to help you work with anyone? Amy Gallo and I discussed this, her best-selling book Getting Along and so much more on Episode 73 of the Reframe & Reset Your Career podcast.

In this episode, we will learn about:

Don't be afraid to reach out to people you don't know, people are more helpful than you realise and fortunately, Amy said yes, when I asked her for this episode,

How Amy played to her strengths and shaped her career to align with them,

The potential benefits of facing up to and managing conflict at work,

Why good relationships at work matter,

Dealing with passive aggressive behaviour at work,

Managing a difficult boss, especially an insecure one,

Dealing with a political operator at work and how to get fair credit for your efforts on a project,

The benefits of diverse teams, and

Other principles for getting along with your colleagues.

Amy is a workplace expert who writes and speaks about gender, interpersonal dynamics, difficult conversations, feedback, and effective communication. She is the author of Getting Along: How to Work with Anyone (Even Difficult People) and the HBR Guide to Dealing with Conflict, as well as hundreds of articles for Harvard Business Review. For the past three years, Amy has co-hosted HBR’s popular Women at Work podcast, which examines the struggles and successes of women in the workplace.

She is frequently sought out by media outlets for her perspective on workplace dynamics, conflict, and difficult conversations. Her advice has been featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Marketplace, and The Austin American-Statesman, as well as on WNYC, the BBC, and ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation).

Amy and I talked about managing conflict and she told me: "It is the nature of human relationships that we are going to have conflict, we're going to have disagreements. It's not always going to be perfect, and that's okay … we are just told that conflict has to be heated and mean, and we conflate it with war and with fracturing of relationships, and I would encourage your listeners, choose the three people in your life who you feel closest to, who you trust. My guess is you have conflict with them, right? This is part of being in relationship with other people, and so we have to learn how to embrace it as something that gives us some positive benefits rather than something that should be avoided at all costs."

People & Resources Mentioned

Amy Gallo TEDx talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnaLS7OE2pk

Women At Work podcast: https://hbr.org/2018/01/podcast-women-at-work

Heidi Grant

Ruchika Tulshyan

Modupe Akinola

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Website: https://www.amyegallo.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amyegallo/

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