How to get along with your lazy coworkers?

Ordinary occasional nap to steal a lazy blame. However, when my colleagues often work drooling, perfunctory attitude, and even go to get off work overtime missed pick, it is estimated that you are also very difficult to pay attention to their quality. Is personally condemned his behavior? Or complain to the boss? Or simply eat less salted dry mouth, do yourself is true?

Experts say almost all of us have met such illegitimate colleagues. For example, Facebook brush all over the day endless break, lunch breaks off two hours, never completed the task on time. However, if his behavior does not seriously disrupt our normal work, then we can not chase behind his ass like his mom.

"You certainly do not want to be fooled," admits Allan R. Cohen, a professor of management at Babson College.

Susan David, author and co-founder of "Unauthorized Influence," coaching institute at Macklin's Hospital in Harvard, agrees: "If your job and promotion are unaffected, you can ignore it and make a copy Internal affairs. "

But if your colleague's behavior torments you all the time, then you have to get rid of the shot.

Here are some tips on how to deal with this tricky situation:

* Put yourself in his place

It is really annoying to work with a lazy colleague, but do not argue with the underlying causes that led to its status quo.

Lazy does not necessarily mean lazy. Maybe he's having trouble with his family or is having trouble getting things done: for example, getting involved in learning a new assignment or learning a new skill.

"It's important to understand the whole context of things, and not to set the motivation for doing things just fine." Cohen suggested that you be able to find out about the tone of your speech before you do anything. This also includes a degree of self-examination. But do not waste too much time here, because if you wait for the limits, you will easily lose your temper.

* Do not confront to communicate.

Of course, if your work is affected, say it. But do not embarrass or blame each other.

Want to communicate with curiosity or compassion. You need to show that you really want to solve the problem rather than complaining or disciplining. You can ask him how the work done, like: "I think you seem to be better than before, ah, what can I help you?"

* Seeking truth from facts.

Here are some examples of how to communicate clearly what exactly offended you and your colleagues. Explain what exactly led to what kind of consequences. For example, because he did not complete the work within the deadline, causing the customer's loss. Or because of his early leaving you have to work overtime late. But keep the conversation positive and optimistic. Cohen suggested that you can find someone else to drill first, adjust the wording and tone.

* To be witty.

Perhaps you have the best solution, but do not stick to this one. It is very helpful to open up more roads. Do not be non-black or white, that they are all the wrong to others. It is very exhausting to know that someone else's fault has been solved. In the end, nothing can be solved.

Give him another chance to change.

If the communication does not work, try again. Maybe it was because you were not direct or specific enough. You can say to him: "We discussed this issue before, but you did not say it." Cohen said it might last a few times.

If such behavior persists and disrupts your work, then you should find your boss to solve it. Of course, we must inform this colleague in advance. Anyway, be humble and courteous, things will always change slowly.

* Be careful with your boss.

In the same way you do with lazy colleagues, put examples and communicate with your boss in an inclusive and understanding manner. If you can show decent generousness in this matter, this will make your boss impressed. But if you lose calm, then playing today, you in the eyes of others has become a lovable horns nasty ghost. Therefore, we should flex its muscles to solve the problem as the main purpose.

Points to note

Should do:

To be inclusive. Because your colleagues are likely to have procrastination behind the reasons.

Talk to your coworkers before raising this matter with your boss.

Put the facts to illustrate how this lazy behavior affects everyone's work.

Should not do:

Tugging at this - if your productivity is not affected, then this is not something you should worry about.

Your boss is not reported to your colleague for the opportunity to change more than once.

Complain your colleague - start with a curious tone of communication.

case analysis

# 1 Friendly handling

Catherine Childs works for a copywriter at a midwestern advertising agency. Soon she found Kevin is a fabled office bully. The young art supervisor is slower to work than others and uses older software 800 years ago, far less capable than his other colleagues.

Catherine's work includes managing the project flow. She knew Kevin's work attitude jeopardized the entire creative team. "He slowed the team down," she said. "I have a certain amount of outdoor work every day, but it takes three times as much to process his documents."

Although such a situation lasted for several months, but no one stood up and said to Kevin, "You need to improve work efficiency." "Everyone is taciturn." Catherine said: "Everyone is resentful but nobody made it." Catherine then decided to talk to Kevin.

Then she learned that the reason why Kevin is always slow and not half because he is lazy, but the question of his working methods. Catherine said: "He always wanted to be perfect." And because of his relationship with the former boss, so Kevin simply closed himself up to ignore the people around him dissatisfaction.

To make Kevin face the challenge, Catherine added more work for him. At the same time she secretly arranged colleagues to cultivate his missing business ability. In a project discussion with Kevin, Catherine also stressed the importance of hard work, Kevin also agreed. Catherine argues: "Treat this type of issue in ways that are good for others."

Unscrupulous time, Kevin not only completed the task on time, but also be able to do more work. He changed the past lazy, reborn. Catherine said: "As long as you work hard, others look in the eyes."

# 2 Avoid if necessary

A large insurance company appointed Mark Berlin to set up a new sales branch. He needs to overcome the clutches in this matter. One of the biggest hot potato is his colleagues - Dennis. The head of the telemarketing department is in the status quo, not willing to pay more.

Mark once asked Denis to talk about this issue and pointed out that this is a good time to improve the efficiency of both departments at the same time. Mark suggests: "We need to have a deeper understanding of each other's sales pipeline." Although he is very supportive, he is ultimately ineffective. So Mark once again found Dennis, pointing out that his attitude affected the rest of the company.

"I've made a few plausible and easy-to-implement plans that will build trust in each other's cooperation." But Dennis and his team, as always, had the tail of the car. In the end, Mark had to restructure his business processes to make up for Dennis's ineffectiveness.

However, Mark's efforts are not unknown to anyone. The vice president learned that he was not easy to work with Dennis and appreciated his performance.

From this, what did Mark learn?

Do not work with lazy coworkers, and concentrate on doing things. Nothing once and for all to deal with idle colleagues. You can only ignore him, bypass him and even fire him. Do not let someone do your stumbling block, just try to move toward the goal.