A difficult colleague may be a warning signal, not the problem. Learn how you can read persistent friction as data about ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Interacting with difficult personalities is often frustrating or even enraging, but it is possible to learn how to manage interactions with these individuals more effectively. Before I address the way ...

Part of a multi-part series on difficult people and situations. Difficult People part 1: The DP Challenge Difficult People part 2: The Eightfold Path of Dealing with Difficult People DP part 3: 21 ...

Personality tests are quite popular among people these days, especially on social media. These are simple, engaging, and fun tests which claim to reveal a person's hidden traits. For instance, this ...

This article follows the Direct Message methodology, designed to cut through the noise and reveal the deeper truths behind the stories we live. Interacting with difficult people can feel like trying ...