Working in Adversarial Relationships: Operating Effectively in Relationships Characterized by Little Trust or Support

Working in Adversarial Relationships takes you through a highly practical, personal and insightful process. It will introduce you to a valuable set of tools which will enable you to step back from your day-to-day work and review how to operate more effectively with your key adversarial senior managers, peers and team members. The book will enable you to:

Understand the impact of adversarial behavior on you, your work and your workplace.

Avoid the pitfalls and overcome the challenges of working with colleagues who do not extend support or trust easily.

Develop the confidence and know-how to handle the most unhelpful features of your adversarial colleagues' working styles and operate effectively alongside them anyway.

This book includes a series of realistic case studies and examples which reflect the dynamics of adversarial working relationships, and encourages you to apply its tools and insights to your own working life. Whether you work for a small, medium or large organization this book will enable you to get things done effectively in prevailingly oppositional relationships.

Aryanne Oade has worked as a Chartered Psychologist since 1991. She has appeared on C4 speaking about customer complaints handling; has given an address on 'Creativity in Business' at the British Association for the Advancement of Science and has appeared on Radio 4 speaking on the same topic. Aryanne has spoken at both the Leeds and York Institute of Directors Breakfast Meetings on 'Politics, Power and Profit'; and at the British Psychological Society's Annual Conference on 'Stress Levels Among South Yorkshire Probation Officers'. She is a member of the British Psychological Society's Special Group in Coaching Psychology and holds general membership at the Division of Occupational Psychology. She is also a Member of the Association for Coaching.