One Difficult Person at Work Can Ruin Everything
If you come into regular contact with a difficult person at work you'll know how stressful and upsetting it can be. The cost of disputes at work goes far beyond the direct impact on those involved.
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If you come into regular contact with a difficult person at work you'll know how stressful and upsetting it can be. The cost of disputes at work goes far beyond the direct impact on those involved.
Challenging behaviour at work takes up energy and eventually leads to burnout. Fix it before it's too late. It can do real damage if it's allow to continue.
Human relationships are like an organisation's DNA. The quality of the relationships affects everything from levels of motivation and trust to overall performance. Poor working relationships, on the other hand, are huge contributor to under-performance, unnecessary running costs, staff turnover and more. Despite the vital importance of how people interact at work peoples' relationships in most organisations get no attention, until something goes wrong.
Rebuilding trust with someone you've hurt can take time. When trust is lost, it can be hard to get back to how things were. It is possible. but it requires acceptance and sincerity on both sides.
You can be in a toxic relationship without realising it. It may not necessarily be unfixable, so being aware of the warning signs can help you make choices about how the relationship progresses (or not).
Relationships are fraught with uncertainty and a good one can be elusive. What are the choices? Keep searching, or work with what you've got?
If you've recently been through a break-up and the emotional pain is still raw, you don't want to hear the it-makes-you-stronger-and-wiser argument right now.
This free download will help you tackle difficult behaviour.
An important but neglected aspect is how we use 'incidents' as learning opportunities when supervising our kids. Rather than scolding them when they get into a spat, we can do more good by teaching children how to manage conflict.
Disagreements, even major ones, don't have to become fights that can end the relationship. But take heart, there's plenty you can do to avoid ending it.