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How would you handle a situation where a colleague was being very difficult to work with?
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Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
In the team based atmosphere at Veeam Software, departments with different skills and backgrounds can often see things from different points of view and these situations can cause some internal conflict between coworkers. With this question, your interviewer is looking to hear how you handle situations where you are working with someone that can be seen as difficult. To give them the sense that you are able to work through conflict in a professional and sensible manner, try to talk through how you handled a conflict at work previously in the past and highlight the interpersonal skills that you used to help make it a positive situation.
Ryan Brunner has over ten years of experience recruiting, interviewing, and hiring candidates in the healthcare, public service, and private manufacturing/distribution industries.
"In all honesty, any great work atmosphere that I've been a part of in the past has involved conflict between colleagues. In situations I have witnessed, conflict has stemmed from very open-minded people giving their two cents in particular situations and two people not seeing eye to eye. This happened recently to me in the planning phases of a new project. On of our UX Designers and I had a disagreement on the final layout of a new software roll out we were planning. It worked best for both of us to talk about our ideas and list the pro's and con's for our ideas. I kept an open mind to learn from her point of view and she did the same to me on my end. This led us to come up with a great compromise in the end."
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In all the environments that I was part of in the past, we had to deal with Conflicts between colleagues (Sometimes direct conflict and sometimes conflict between others). In one of the direct conflict situations that happened to me during my QBR presentation for the region where one colleague didn't like what I mentioned and he took it personally, and he said some harsh professional sentences, my reaction was to explain my point of view but he didn't want to listen, so I waited for the cafe break and went directly to him with a smile and we had an open discussion and I truly understood his interpretation of my slide that bothered him, so we ended up by clearing the misunderstanding and sharing our thoughts and ideas and the result was very positive and we were both happy of the conclusion.
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Good! Your approach is very professional and speaks to your ability to de-personalize for the good of the team. Nice job!
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