The team does not like me - what to do?

In this blog, I will provide an approach to handling the situation where managers must work with team members who dislike them.

Srihari Udugani
5 min readFeb 28, 2024
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In situations where you were chosen for promotion to manager role than others within the team, then there could be team members who do not want to support the decision.

Such team members will start showing that they don’t like you and they will start making things harder for you.

In this case, some managers don’t understand what to do. They will be stuck with so many thoughts and frustration about the situation.

In this blog, I will give a structured approach to handling the situation. This structured approach may help to ease the situation.

Why the dislike?

It is important to understand the reason why some individuals don’t want you to be in the position of manager for the team.

Without understanding the reason, it will be difficult to arrive at possible solutions to ease the situation.

In my opinion, the following are the broad reasons.

  1. The experience levels do not match.
    Some of them think, your experience is not enough to become a manager or their…

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Srihari Udugani
Srihari Udugani

Written by Srihari Udugani

Writes about management techniques and frameworks that can be implemented immediately.

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