Working with Difficult Personalities: How to deal effectively with challenging colleagues
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We will all encounter difficult personalities at some point in our careers. Particularly challenging colleagues can sap our motivation, undermine our effectiveness and leave us feeling angry and frustrated. However, you do not have to simply put up with this: there are a range of straightforward steps you can take to ward off conflict and improve your relationships with the people around you.
In 50 minutes you will be able to:
• Find out what causes conflicts in your relationships at work
• Understand the key characteristics of a range of difficult personalities
• Implement strategies to deal with unreasonable behaviour in the workplace
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Working with Difficult Personalities - 50minutes
Problem: we all encounter tension and conflicts from time to time throughout our careers. How can we deal with difficult personalities so that they do not throw us off balance and we can continue with what we are doing?
Uses: knowing how to analyse the situation and react constructively when, for example, your supervisor is behaving like a tyrant, a coworker is poisoning the atmosphere within the team or a colleague is oversharing about their anxiety can have a major impact on your professional relationships.
Professional context: interpersonal relationships at work.
FAQs:
Why do conflicts arise?
Is conflict inevitable?
Do I have to make concessions?
Is it ever a good idea to get angry at work?
Why does a particular colleague behave differently when it is just the two of us compared to when we are in a group?
Why are there high and low points in my relationships with colleagues?
Why do I always end up working with difficult colleagues?
Why do I never get on with my supervisors?
Is it possible to change people?
Interpersonal relationships are not easy and we come across people we struggle to get on with every day. Unfortunately, while we cannot choose our colleagues, we are still forced to spend large amounts of time with them at work.
Our relationships with some people are naturally easy, harmonious and constructive, which means that they do not require any particular effort. Conversely, we need to work at our relationships with more difficult people. Accepting