What are your assumptions about difficult people at work? Considering their possible motivations can change your perspective.

Learning how to deal with difficult people at work isn't always easy. Take the case of Tom. At this particular meeting, his face was shades of red as he shook his head in dismay. "There's no time to ...

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 ...

You just need to look at the news lately to realize that there are more difficult people out there. People are getting arrested for being unruly on airlines it seems almost every day. The number of ...

A common theme in my work with clients is their complaints about the people they can’t relate to and don’t want to work with. I understand why. When we face people we perceive as being “difficult” to ...

Chances are you work with someone you don’t like. A survey by LLC.org found that 83% of full-time employees have at least one coworker who annoys them, and 21% have even considered quitting because of ...

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 ...

Lately, as more and more organizations are requiring at least a partial return to the office, it seems that many folks are struggling with being back around people who they were all too happy to get ...

After two decades of working in leading companies as the head of leadership development and coaching countless leaders, I can tell you unequivocally that leaders tend to struggle the most with ...

Jessica Robles does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

One personality test called…wait for it…the “Difficult Person Test” has recently gone viral online. The large number of individuals who have taken this popular test probably would not want to be ...

Throughout TV history, there have been plenty of duos who’ve had the sort of close-knit, we-can-finish-each-other’s-sentences friendships you don’t often see in real life: Mary and Rhoda, Chandler and ...