Dealing With Difficult People

Every workplace has difficult people and dealing with these difficult coworkers can make or break your day at work. Here are ten great tips for dealing with difficult coworkers.

Ready for some tips about how to deal with difficult people in your workplace? These 10 tips will help you address the actions of difficult people in your workplace.

Bullying at work is intentionally causing pain to or harming another employee. Bullying takes many forms: verbal abuse from swearing to belittling, physical abuse from standing too close in a threatening manner to punching, mental abuse from undermining a coworker’s work to keeping track of and reporting mistakes. Bullying is characterized by a lack of respect for a coworker. Bullying is sometimes obvious, but more subtle forms of bullying often cause the most damage.

Think you work with a bully? Do you regularly feel intimidated, dread to work anywhere near a particular coworker, or you’re yelled at, insulted, and put down? Does a coworker talk over you at meetings, criticize your performance, or steal credit for your work? If you answer yes to these questions, chances are good that you’re one of 54 million Americans, who have been attacked by a bully at work.

Are you interested in discovering your employees’ most serious complaints? Knowing what makes employees unhappy is half the battle when you think about employee work satisfaction, motivation and retention. Listen to employees and provide opportunities for them to communicate with company managers. If employees feel safe they will tell you what’s...

You can submarine your job and career by the relationships you form at work. No matter your education, experience, or title, if you can't play well with others, you won't succeed. Effective relationships create success and satisfaction on the job. Learn more about seven effective work relationship musts.

Meaningful confrontation is never easy but conflict is often necessary if you want to stick up for your rights at work. Whether the confrontation is over shared credit, irritating coworker habits and approaches, or to keep a project on track, sometimes you need to hold a confrontation with a coworker. The good news is that while confrontation is almost never your first choice, you can become better and more comfortable with necessary conflict.

One of the great lessons from Talent IQ is that the performance of talent gone awry is very seriously under-addressed in organizational life. Called “Talent On-the-Bubble,” a pattern of human behavior was identified that can take any organization and its leadership team down if left untended. Talent On-the-Bubble can make a mockery of...

Most people have pet peeves about coworkers. And, why not? Even relatively sane and likeable people do things that can drive their coworkers to distraction. What behavior drives you the craziest from the difficult people in your workplace?

In every workplace, at least three generations, with all their different needs and wants, try to peacefully co-exist. This quiz, from the authors of "When Generations Collide," will give you insight into the needs and wants of Boomers, Gen Xers, Traditionalists and Millenials. Curious?

Every workplace has a coworker or two who exhibit all of the symptoms of a cowoker from hell. They mistreat and abuse their coworkers, take credit for work they didn't do, and treat their coworkers with disdain, disrespect, and downright nastiness.

Bullying ended on the middle school playground - right? Wrong. Bullying at work is a serious problem that 54 million Americans have experienced. Have you been bullied or witnessed another employee dealing with bullying at work? What happened and how did you respond to the bullying at work?

Have stories to tell about excuses employees make when they're tardy for work? I've heard lots of strange, fabricated, wild, crazy excuses about why employees are tardy for work. One of my best excuses ever was the afternoon shift employee who was tardy for work and claimed that her grandfather's funeral had run much longer than expected -...

As a Human Resources professional, you interact with employees all day long - every day. You have a lot you'd like to say to difficult employees, so you frequently bite your tongue. Readers share their stories about difficult people.

Deadbeat employees exist in every workplace. No matter how you define a deadbeat employee, it's not pleasant to work for or with a deadbeat employee. Supervising a deadbeat employee is the worst. Do you have tips for working with deadbeat employees? Readers share their favorite tips for dealing with deadbeat employees.

Nothing is more destructive in the workplace than a difficult boss. Employees always have a boss during their working career, for better or for worse. Find out more about dealing with a difficult boss.