How can you coordinate if your colleagues don't actively cooperate?

It is common to work with colleagues without their active cooperation. I think when coordinating the relationship between colleagues, we might as well regard colleagues as our own users and use "user thinking" to guide our work.

1. What are the needs of your users?

If you want to sell a product to your users, do you need to use your product to solve a certain demand of your users? For example: low price, convenience and availability. So when you cooperate with your colleagues, do you also need to consider their needs?

Generally speaking, the needs of colleagues are divided into two categories. One is related to direct interests, such as promotion, salary increase, bonus, and improvement of performance appraisal indicators after completing a project, and the other is related to spiritual incentives, such as self-realization and team honor.

When you grasp the needs of your colleagues, you will know how to prescribe the right medicine when you coordinate your work with him. If a colleague is a smart person, he will know the importance of work content with a little push. If a colleague is stubborn, tell him directly what will happen if he can't finish the work on time with good quality and quantity.

2. Think about what value you can bring to your users.

If you want your users to trust you and work closely with you, do you need to think about what value you can bring to your users? So are your colleagues. What value can you bring to your colleagues? For example: discuss a feasible project implementation plan together, introduce him to reliable third-party cooperation channels, and help him make slides. Not only does love need to be evenly matched, but the workplace relationship also needs to be "appropriate". The more value you can provide to your colleagues, the more initiative you have to handle the working relationship with your colleagues.

3. Seek the breakthrough point of parallel communication and upward communication at key nodes.

When you take the initiative many times, if your colleagues are still indifferent to your action instructions, then finally you need to communicate with your colleagues or leaders. Please ask the leader to check the key nodes recommended by the project. On the one hand, it can give some pressure to uncooperative colleagues, on the other hand, it can use the appropriate control of leaders to push the project forward.

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