Ex-colleague who stole my ideas might join my new place of work – what should I do?

APPRENTICE prima and West Ham United vice-chair Karren Brady answers your careers questions.

Here, Karren gives proposal to a scholar who has seen a toxic ex-colleague astatine her caller job.

Q) I enactment successful spot absorption and was astatine a institution for 9 months, but near arsenic soon arsenic I could – due to the fact that of 1 colleague.

She continually took recognition for my enactment and ideas and, though I mentioned it to my boss, thing truly changed. It made our moving situation toxic and I hated it.

I’m truthful overmuch happier present I’m astatine a antithetic company, but the different day I saw my ex-colleague successful our building.

I cognize my manager is recruiting, and present I’m disquieted this idiosyncratic volition get the occupation and I’ll person to enactment with her again – and person to permission again!

What should I do?

Fliss, via email

A) It’s ne'er casual dealing with idiosyncratic who creates a toxic workplace.

If you fishy your ex-colleague mightiness beryllium joining your existent team, person a speech with your manager.

Focus connected however her behaviour affected your quality to enactment efficaciously successful the past, but debar idiosyncratic grievances.

Make it wide that you’re committed to maintaining a affirmative enactment environment, but wanted to emblem your concerns.

This will assistance your manager to spot the imaginable risks, without it seeming similar you’re conscionable trying to support someone out due to the fact that of idiosyncratic issues.

If she does articulation your team, beryllium prepared to  set  immoderate wide boundaries.

Be assertive successful meetings with your ideas, ensuring you person the recognition you deserve.

Use it arsenic an accidental to practise  handling hard personalities successful a nonrecreational way.

Sometimes, talking  things done with a trusted person tin assistance to enactment enactment issues in perspective.

Staying successful the occupation you bask and facing the challenge  could  beryllium a existent accidental to grow, truthful don’t fto anyone propulsion you retired of it.

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