7 Ways New Managers can work with difficult peers
Managing difficult peers is a common challenge for new managers. Building relationships with difficult peers is crucial for succeeding in the role.
As a manager, your success depends on how well you collaborate with other team managers. Without their support, your team’s deliverables may suffer.
Hence having a strategic partnership with peer managers becomes important. However, the issue arises when they are not collaborative.
The non-collaborative situation arises due to various reasons. It could be because boundaries are not clear, the plan is not clear, there are other challenges of which you are not aware or their team’s goal is not clear, and many more.
So it is important to strategize the collaboration rather than expecting everyone will collaborate no matter the situation.
In this blog I will provide seven strategies to improve peer interactions and relationship building, to improve collaboration and support.
The Issues
Following are the top 5 issues that you will face if the collaboration with peer managers is not established.
Issue#1: Missed deliverables
Your team’s deliverables will have delays due to a lack of collaboration from peer teams.
