What are your assumptions about difficult people at work? Considering their possible motivations can change your perspective.

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Executive coach and author Nick Robinson illuminates the challenging traits of work colleagues and shares strategies from his book — The 9 Types of Difficult People: How to Spot Them and Quickly ...

In an ideal world, everyone would be as sweet, fun and chill as your best friend since fifth grade. In reality, your life is full of all sorts of difficult personalities, from the toxic co-worker who ...

You just need to look at the news lately to realize that there are more difficult people out there. People are getting arrested for being unruly on airlines it seems almost every day. The number of ...

Difficult people are (unfortunately) everywhere. That coworker who always has to be right, the family member who pushes your buttons, or the customer who seems impossible to please. We've all been ...

A common theme in my work with clients is their complaints about the people they can’t relate to and don’t want to work with. I understand why. When we face people we perceive as being “difficult” to ...

Who’s a difficult person? Aggressive, manipulative, bossy, distrustful, insensitive, fussy, quarrelsome, ill-mannered, rigid – one who possesses any two or more of these qualities is not easy to ...

After two decades of working in leading companies as the head of leadership development and coaching countless leaders, I can tell you unequivocally that leaders tend to struggle the most with ...

Matthew 18:15-20 is cited in the constitution of many churches. Its goal is to bring reconciliation or healing of broken relationships and to bring persons to repentance, or simply getting their act ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. There’s a fine line between being assertive and being ...