Why Work Relationships Are So Hard with Carrie Rowan | Episode 147

Why Do Work Relationships Feel So Hard?

You can choose your friends—but you usually don’t get to choose your boss, your coworkers, or the personalities you spend eight hours a day with. Is it any wonder work relationships can feel so difficult?

Sometimes, the workplace can feel a lot like the school playground—complete with cliques, gossip, power struggles, and that one person who gets under your skin. But what if you’re not reacting only to the person in front of you? What if you’re reacting to everyone they remind you of?

In Week 3 of the Better Relationships, Better Life series, Carrie reveals how old stories and past experiences can follow us into the workplace, influencing whom we trust, how we communicate, and what we assume about other people.

You’ll discover:

Why work relationships can trigger such powerful emotional reactions

How your brain may label someone before you truly know them

The Three B’s for Better Relationships at Work

One powerful shift that can help you connect across personalities, generations, and backgrounds

It’s time to check your stories at the door. There’s no room for playground drama when we’ve got a job to do.

And tune in NEXT WEEK on Look for the Good, Carrie brings the entire Better Relationships, Better Life series together with Sandra Coker, CEO of Human Power Solutions. They’ll unpack one of the biggest relationship challenges in today’s workplace: how different generations think, communicate, and define success—and what it takes to turn those differences into stronger teams, better performance, and a workplace where people actually want to stay.