Question

A supervisor in another department really irritates Keira. Keira has never shared this annoyance with anyone. One day, Keira was asked to attend a meeting led by the irritating supervisor. As Keira sat in the meeting, she had a hard time focusing on the message. Her mind was wandering through mental noise. At the end of the meeting, Keira was embarrassed that there were no notes to share. Dislike for the irritating supervisor affected her ability to listen and be a good receiver. Keira learned a tough lesson that day and made a commitment to be open to every communication, regardless of liking or disliking the sender.

Read the Topic Situation about Keira and the supervisor on p.126. Have you ever had a similar issue? Maybe a coworker that you didn't get along with, or irritated you for some reason? We've all had disagreements, misunderstandings, and miscommunication issues at work. Tell about it in your initial post, and tell about your response. Looking back, was it a good response? Or do you wish you had handled it differently? What did you learn?

Answer 1

Yes had a similar issue. Had a talk about political issue with one of my classmates. It was too controversial where both of us crossed lines. After a few minutes there was class of macroeconomics where sir was giving lecture. During that lecture my thoughts were on that discussion and I lost focus. The result was too or three times I replied wrongly whereas I always reply rightly to questions. After the class it took some more hours to forget it But I learnt a lesson that such diversion of attention can be costly. I talked with my classmate about it and he felt sorry. I also said I should not have gone into discussion too much. It was not good response. I could have told the classmate there and then that I too have crossed line. He will have expressed his sorrow over it and matter will have been resolved there and then. I learnt that one should not engage in such kind of communication which could go out of control