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Live With Heart - Handling Difficult People

By Amy Frost - It's quite clear that if you treat people like idiots, they will behave like idiots. Jerome Bruner What defines a difficult person? One definition -- Someone who makes it a challenge to accomplish your goals or who makes it hard to just keep moving with enjoyment. You cannot change difficult people but you can control your responses to them and learn skills to cope in a healthy ways. Effective listening is one important key to defusing and not "creating" difficult people and situations. Paraphrasing, perception checking and silence can all be used to enhance connection. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 2453 )

Dealing With A Difficult Colleague

By Robert Bacal - Most people use the term personality conflict to describe this situation. I don't like that term because it implies that the problem is largely unfixable since it is unlikely that either you or the other person is going to change their personalities. To get anything constructive out of this you are going to have to get down to specific behaviours, not personalities. (Added: 17-Oct-2000 Hits: 3266 )

Article: Dealing with Difficult People, Part 2

By Daniel Robin - This article will help you understand how "difficult behaviors" in colleagues and customers keep us from doing our best work, and offers strategies for doing something about it. (Added: 10-May-2001 Hits: 3684 )

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