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Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...

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Everyone has had at least one difficult or toxic person in his or her life. Most of us use the classic modalities to deal with them: flight, fight or freeze. When Gary, for example, makes another jab ...

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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 ...

To succeed at work — and in life — you often have to find a way to deal with difficult people. -- 53 percent of workers lost time worrying about a confrontation. -- 37 percent reduced their commitment ...

There’s always at least one in every office. The employee who regales everyone with crude jokes. They are full of gratuitous insults or off-color commentary. Research shows that a shocking 80 percent ...

Both in the office and in our personal lives, it is safe to assume that we will encounter difficult people. The key is to brace ourselves with easy-to-apply strategies so that we remain as calm and ...