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 ...

At some point, almost everyone will have to work with a difficult person. Maybe it’s someone who isn’t meeting their deadlines, isn’t living up to their responsibilities, or has an abrasive ...

Whether they're colleagues, clients, or customers, you’re sure to encounter difficult people at work. It might be someone who hinders productivity, rubs you the wrong way, makes you upset, or is ...

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 ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. When I began studying how workplace culture impacts ...

These six books can help ease tensions. By Louisa Kamps Earlier in my career, I worked for a hot-tempered woman who, according to an office rumor, had thrown a shoe at one of my predecessors. Rattled ...

Hey, y’all! If you constantly find yourself acquiescing to difficult people at work, you may be “fawning.” Here’s the deal, plus how to stop it. Fawning is an “extreme form of people-pleasing” that ...

Relationships can feel like both a blessing and the bane of your existence, a source of joy and a source of frustration or ...

We have all met people who are so prickly and difficult that no one wants to handle them. But it has taken these contentious times to make this a common occurrence. Divisiveness makes normal ...

Everyone faces hard things, but not everyone handles them the same way. People who cope well tend to do a few things ...