If You're Curious About These Questions...
You should listen to this audiobook
- Did you know that there are eight distinct types of difficult coworkers, and using the wrong strategy to handle them could be sabotaging your professional success?
- Have you ever wondered why a single negative interaction at work can completely derail your creativity and productivity for the rest of the day?
- What if you could transform your most stressful workplace relationships into productive partnerships using a few simple psychological shifts?
Listen to Getting Along — Free Audiobook
Loading player...
Key Takeaways from Getting Along
- Discover why positive social connections at work often matter more for your overall job satisfaction and productivity than your specific role or salary.
- Understand how negative coworker interactions trigger a physical fight-or-flight response in your brain and can even slow down your body's ability to heal.
- Learn to overcome workplace negativity bias by pausing to reappraise colleagues' reactions, allowing you to view stressful situations as challenges rather than threats.
- Master practical strategies for coexisting with difficult colleagues, such as shifting to email communication, documenting behavioral patterns, and building a supportive microculture.
- Find out when it is time to leave a toxic job and how to ensure you are strategically running toward a better opportunity rather than simply fleeing your current problems.
Getting Along — Full Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: Recommendation
Chapter 2: Workplace relationships profoundly shape your work life, productivity, and happiness.
Chapter 3: Handling negative interactions can help you coexist with challenging coworkers.
Getting Along Summary & Overview
Getting Along (2022) describes the importance of workplace interactions and their effects on productivity and creativity.
Who Should Listen to Getting Along?
- Managers who want to create positive work environments
- People unhappy with their colleagues
- Anyone interested in workplace relationships
Books Similar to Getting Along
Readers who enjoyed this also liked these titles.
How to Work with Complicated People
★ 0.0 / 5 • 0 ratingsStrategies for Effective Collaboration with (Nearly) Anyone
How to Work with (Almost) Anyone
★ 4.0 / 5 • 72 ratingsFive Questions for Building the Best Possible Relationships
Difficult Conversations Don't Have to Be Difficult
★ 3.9 / 5 • 144 ratingsA Simple, Smart Way to Make Your Relationships and Team Better
Collaborating with the Enemy
★ 4.6 / 5 • 5 ratingsHow to Work with People You Don't Agree with or Like or Trust