a brief description about company environment, colleague and keeping growth on track.

1. Purpose of Brakes in a CAR.
Stop the car Slow down the car
What if we do not have brakes ???
It allows you to drive as fast as possible.

2. Similarly purpose of
challenging,
interrogative, and
curious colleague
is not to slow you down.
They allow you to
plan and execute
better and faster.

4. Questioning develops your
Methodologies
Challenges to your ideas
Check alternative perspectives

5. Thorough
Plans are more comprehensive
The critical input will ensure : Well thought out
Less prone to unexpected setbacks.

6. They keep us
focussed,
motivated and
committed to achieve our goals.
A challenging colleague can be an
accountable partner,
ensuring to keep us on track and
maintain high standard of work.
By questioning
the progress,
Dead lines, and
deliverables,

7. They create environment
of
leaning and improvement
The continuous
questioning inspire us to
seek out
• New knowledge.
• Industrial trends.
• Refining skills.
Resulting into personal and professional growth

8. It is important to note that
challenging colleague should maintain
constructive and respectful approach.
The function should be to encourage
critical thinking, stimulate growth,
instead of creating confrontational
approach.

9. For handling
challenging colleague.

10. “Sometimes it’s just good to sit back
and get a different perspective.”
Embrace
opportunity to
gain new
insights.
Rather than reacting defensively or with dismissal.
Rather than
reacting
defensively or
with dismissal.

11. Actively listen to
their questions and
concerns without
being defensive.
This will allow us to
understand their
perspective and
adjust our plans
accordingly.

12. Be receptive to feedbacks.

13. Encourage healthy
back and forth
exchange of ideas,
where both parties
can challenge and
learn from each
other.

14. If the questions are
vague from our
colleagues then must
seek clarification,
specific examples to
address their
concerns effectively.

15. Invite interrogative
colleague for
brainstorming and
collaborative
discussion for
comprehensive plans
and faster
executions.

16. Acknowledge
and
appreciate.
Recognize their
efforts in
bringing us to
think critically.

17. The actual goal is to foster a
collaborative growth oriented
relationship with our challenging
colleague, leading to better
outcomes and professional
developments.

18. Various challenges from different types of colleagues.

19. Competitors :
Highly ambitious, consistently sets
higher goal, pushes you to improve your
performance.
Micromanagers :
closely monitor and control your work,
impacts decision making abilities. It
creates unnecessary stress and hinder
our productivity.

20. Negative Nancies :
Pessimistic attitude, focus only on
problem rather than solutions. To tackle
them keep a high positive mindset.
Office politicians :
often know how to navigate political
landscape for their advantage. They
always manipulate for their own
interests.

21. Ineffective communicator :
creates misunderstanding and delays in
projects. We have to invest extra
efforts to clear miscommunication and
align to work.
Under Performer :
These fail to meet their
responsibilities creating extra
workloads and stress. We have to find
ways and means to reduce their impact
and shortcomings on to project.

22. Know it all :
These believe they have right answers.
They tend to disregards or dismiss idea /
opinions of others. We have to challenge
their perspective for effectiveness.
Gatekeepers :
These control access to everything, viz info,
resources,etc to limit growth.
We have to build relationship or alternative
routes to get access to everything for progress.