I was recently told that in order to be promoted to manager I need to take on a coaching role. My leaders set me up to coach one of my team members, however, this coworker is a piece of work. He’s known across the org to be difficult. So much so that when people meet me and find out what team I’m on they ask me what it’s like to work with him. Am I being set up to fail on purpose?

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Take it as a coaching moment for both you and the difficult colleague.
It’s apart of being manager, because you’ll have good and bad days with customers and employees as a manager. So you must overcome the obstacles of handling and coaching a difficult employee, because unfortunately it comes with the responsibility.

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You were assigned this co worker because they know it’s a difficult task for you and your team member, but they also know you can work with that co worker to get the job done successfully for both of you.

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I highly doubt it was on purpose. It probably just worked out that way. You could always ask to be reassigned if you feel like it's not a useful working relationship.

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So the only retort to this is to pull said employee aside where there’s no cameras or people and give them a talking to or if need be a punch in the face. I know some will say this is wrong but it’s a dog eat dog world and you’re wearing milkbone underwear.

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