It doesn’t matter if it’s a co-worker or family member, people with difficult personalities are hard to communicate with. And while all difficult people have different personas, a lot of it comes down ...

We have all met people who are so prickly and difficult that no one wants to handle them. But it has taken these contentious times to make this a common occurrence. Divisiveness makes normal ...

At some point, almost everyone will have to work with a difficult person. Maybe it’s someone who isn’t meeting their deadlines, isn’t living up to their responsibilities, or has an abrasive ...

We all have people with whom we struggle, problematic people who seem to drain us of our energies, rub us the wrong way, poke, provoke, frustrate or trigger us. What’s really happening when we find ...

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 ...

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This article is published by AllBusiness.com, a partner of TIME. By Krish Chopra It was 11 p.m. on a Thursday when my phone rang—again. Another nurse practitioner student was overwhelmed and panicked ...

Offering calm, disengaged responses might quell conflict in some situations, but it’s not a long-term strategy, experts say. Claudio Abilio had hoped to move on after ending a relationship she ...

Interviews tend to make people anxious. The reason is that the power balance tends to be on the employer’s side. Interviews are also the deciding factor in who gets the job. An equally or even less ...

Claudio Abilio had hoped to move on after ending a relationship she described as toxic and emotionally abusive. But continued interactions — for various reasons — became fraught with tension and drama ...