change your perspective for development and growth.
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The document discusses the importance of having challenging colleagues who encourage critical thinking and personal growth, much like how brakes are essential for safely operating a car. It highlights the need for constructive interaction with various challenging colleague types, offering strategies for effective communication and collaboration. Ultimately, it emphasizes fostering a positive, growth-oriented relationship with such colleagues to enhance outcomes and professional development.
change your perspective for development and growth.
- 1. Purpose of Brakes in a CAR. Stop the car Slow down the car What if we do not have brakes ??? It allows you to drive as fast as possible.
- 2. Similarly purpose of challenging, interrogative, and curious colleague is not to slow you down. They allow you to plan and execute better and faster.
- 4. Questioning develops your Methodologies Challenges to your ideas Check alternative perspectives
- 5. Thorough Plans are more comprehensive The critical input will ensure : Well thought out Less prone to unexpected setbacks.
- 6. They keep us focussed, motivated and committed to achieve our goals. A challenging colleague can be an accountable partner, ensuring to keep us on track and maintain high standard of work. By questioning the progress, Dead lines, and deliverables,
- 7. They create environment of leaning and improvement The continuous questioning inspire us to seek out New knowledge. Industrial trends. Refining skills. Resulting into personal and professional growth
- 8. It is important to note that challenging colleague should maintain constructive and respectful approach. The function should be to encourage critical thinking, stimulate growth, instead of creating confrontational approach.
- 10. Sometimes its just good to sit back and get a different perspective. Embrace opportunity to gain new insights. Rather than reacting defensively or with dismissal. Rather than reacting defensively or with dismissal.
- 11. Actively listen to their questions and concerns without being defensive. This will allow us to understand their perspective and adjust our plans accordingly.
- 12. Be receptive to feedbacks.
- 13. Encourage healthy back and forth exchange of ideas, where both parties can challenge and learn from each other.
- 14. If the questions are vague from our colleagues then must seek clarification, specific examples to address their concerns effectively.
- 15. Invite interrogative colleague for brainstorming and collaborative discussion for comprehensive plans and faster executions.
- 16. Acknowledge and appreciate. Recognize their efforts in bringing us to think critically.
- 17. The actual goal is to foster a collaborative growth oriented relationship with our challenging colleague, leading to better outcomes and professional developments.
- 18. Various challenges from different types of colleagues.
- 19. Competitors : Highly ambitious, consistently sets higher goal, pushes you to improve your performance. Micromanagers : closely monitor and control your work, impacts decision making abilities. It creates unnecessary stress and hinder our productivity.
- 20. Negative Nancies : Pessimistic attitude, focus only on problem rather than solutions. To tackle them keep a high positive mindset. Office politicians : often know how to navigate political landscape for their advantage. They always manipulate for their own interests.
- 21. Ineffective communicator : creates misunderstanding and delays in projects. We have to invest extra efforts to clear miscommunication and align to work. Under Performer : These fail to meet their responsibilities creating extra workloads and stress. We have to find ways and means to reduce their impact and shortcomings on to project.
- 22. Know it all : These believe they have right answers. They tend to disregards or dismiss idea / opinions of others. We have to challenge their perspective for effectiveness. Gatekeepers : These control access to everything, viz info, resources,etc to limit growth. We have to build relationship or alternative routes to get access to everything for progress.