Comments on: Keeping a Work Friendship Alive https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/ VitalSmarts is now Crucial Learning Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:41:19 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 By: Keeping a Work Friendship Alive | Making #love ... https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3464 Tue, 01 Jul 2014 05:41:19 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3464 […] Dear Crucial Skills, My department is in the midst of reorganization. While I am trying to remain positive, the change I am having the most difficulty with is my friend and coworker becoming my man…  […]

]]> By: Sakina Sands https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3463 Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:25:12 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3463 Very helpful and easy to relate to these situations. I would also like to hear your advise with the reverse situation as well.

]]> By: TAM https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3462 Thu, 19 Jun 2014 12:49:45 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3462 Really found the “watch for this story” and “interrogate this story” approach to be helpful.

]]> By: CB https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3461 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:46:01 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3461 On the other end of this spectrum is having a manager/friend bring you onto their team; there is a level of not wanting to disappoint or let them down. You end up going that extra mile and extending yourself which is not a negative. However you need to keep that open and honest exchange going and show mutual respect for each other and the positions you each hold.

]]> By: Romesh https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3460 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:13:39 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3460 HI David,

Good read.
Would like to know your thought for a reverse situation.
Thoughts for the supervisor/manager.
Appreciate if you could share that too.

]]> By: Jerry Hutchins https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3459 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:43:18 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3459 Good comments here. Thank you. Many years ago I left a job to go work for a former colleague at a large corporation. It was very difficult. Although I work 60 to 70 hours a week, easily 15 to 20 hours more than anyone else but him in the department he never could cut me any slack. For example, once a month I had to drive to pick up my daughters for a weekend with me. It was a six-hour round-trip drive, but he couldn’t see letting me leave at lunch on those days because it would look like favoritism. The end result was that a year later my old job asked for me to come back and I gladly left.

When I spoke with his supervisor about why I was leaving. They said he they would pass him over on promotion not because of what I said because but because he pushed people too hard. That was really something to hear in a company that has a very definite reputation for pushing their employees to the max.

]]> By: Geraldine https://cruciallearning.com/blog/keeping-a-work-friendship-alive/#comment-3458 Wed, 18 Jun 2014 14:24:41 +0000 http://www.crucialskills.com/?p=5236#comment-3458 very helpful response.

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