Dealing With Difficult People At Work - Career Advice To Keep You Sane & Improve Job Satisfaction

Fill in the blank, "When I left my jobs in the past it was because of..." For a majority of people, dealing with difficult people was one of the main influencers affecting their level of job satisfaction and their decision to leave. As a result, poor relationships is often the number one topic of career advice I'm asked to give.

In this article we'll look at how to improve our level of workplace happiness, save our sanity and graciously manage Politicking Pete, Backstabbing Barbara and Insulting Ian.

** Politicking Pete **

This guy plays games, is underhanded, pits people off against one another and spends enormous amounts of time going back and forth between various parties to build factions. Then he'll turn them against one another and generally create havoc.

Pete has way too much time on his hands if he's 'campaigning', but that's because he's an excellent delegator. By getting others to do his work it frees up his time to talk and talk and talk, with a huge dose of manipulation thrown in.

He's also great at avoiding work, you'll never see Pete put up his hand to help anyone out or work on extracurricular activities such as committees or working parties. However, on the odd occasion he may participate if he feels he can further his latest cause.

You'll often find Pete sitting on the edge of someone's desk, in their visitor's chair or inviting people for a coffee so he can 'bounce an idea' off them. In reality, he just wants to spin his story and get them to agree.

He affects his co-workers' satisfaction by working on fear. If you don't go along with his politicking you're afraid you'll be on the outer and if you do join his band of merry trouble-makers for the wrong reason you have this dis-ease inside you because you're ignoring your values.

>> Dealing with Pete > Dealing with Barbara

About the Author:
Madisen Harper was inspired to create a revolution of people who enjoy their work, are high performers, on purpose, can have a laugh and be more than decent human beings to one another.
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Madisen recently co-authored a book with Dr Wayne Dyer, Brian Tracy & 'The Secret's' John Assaraf & Michael Beckwith.

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