Difficult People: Understanding Difficult People

Problems with difficult coworkers
By NA - Deal with problems with difficult coworkers while keeping yourself sane, happy and productive. How an observant eye and a sense of humor can be your best defense. (Added: 25-Nov-2003 Hits: 286 )

Techniques for dealing with difficult people
By John Baker - Short. During this period of difficult economic times, emotions run high when dealing with sensitive issues. Below are nine points to consider when dealing with people about these issues. These points are routinely used by mediators during financial mediation sessions. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 318 )

Selling to Difficult People
By Patricia Wiklund - We all have people whom we find difficult. We don't understand them, connect with them, or even talk comfortably with them. But, for sales people, seeing someone as difficult gets in our way of our selling effectively and their buying wisely. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 116 )

DIFFICULT PEOPLE AS SPIRITUAL TEACHERS: A MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE FOR EVERYDAY LIFE
By Cal Appleby - The practice of allowing difficult people to be teachers for you is a mental health practice for everyday life. It provides an opportunity to be mindful and calm in our busy, difficult, and often chaotic lives. This practice goes hand in hand with self awareness meditations emphasizing calming and clearing of the mind. It also serves as a skillful means toward stress reduction, peace keeping, and conflict resolution. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 257 )

Live With Heart - Handling Difficult People
By Amy Frost - It's quite clear that if you treat people like idiots, they will behave like idiots. Jerome Bruner What defines a difficult person? One definition -- Someone who makes it a challenge to accomplish your goals or who makes it hard to just keep moving with enjoyment. You cannot change difficult people but you can control your responses to them and learn skills to cope in a healthy ways. Effective listening is one important key to defusing and not "creating" difficult people and situations. Paraphrasing, perception checking and silence can all be used to enhance connection. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 199 )

Dealing With Difficult People
By Alan Seeler - It seems like no matter what area of life we are in there are always some people who are difficult to get on with. They are either exceptionally prickly, or don't seem to care less, couldn't be bothered, or are remarkably self-centred and inconsiderate. We want to suggest a different approach, one that concentrates on how we are observing. This is based on the following premise: We do not know how things are, we only know how we observe them. (Added: 28-May-2003 Hits: 190 )