By Aryanne Oade (auth.)
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Previous to this encounter, she would not have ended a meeting so abruptly or so unilaterally. Now, though, the relationship is on a different footing and she has altered her approach to it accordingly. Her peer isn’t expecting this turn of events. He has made the assumption that the risk assessor will be a relatively easy target for his adversarial maneuver, and he supposes wrongly. Rather than handle the situation ineffectively, she demonstrates sufficient strength and guile to leave him wondering what she might do next, and he is left rooted to the spot considering his options.
Nor is it a desire on his part to preserve a level of transactional contact between them. He does so because he is concerned that, should the SLA include a section on handling errors, a number of senior managers in the wider organization might realize that there is a cause for concern in his department. His conduct is therefore not about introducing groundless antagonism into the relationship between himself and his peer, although it could be seen this way. Nor is it about an attempt to see how far he can push his peer, although it could be seen that way too.
In these cases your job is to make accurate distinctions about where these boundaries lie. One of the pieces of evidence that may prove influential to you is whether a colleague does or does not act supportively towards you. THE LINKS BETWEEN SUPPORT AND CHALLENGE Some of your workplace relationships will be characterized by a high degree of mutual support. Others will be marked by no supportive intent either way. There will be many that lie on different places on the continuum in between, places characterized by you giving or receiving support some of the time, and your colleagues doing likewise.