How To Deal With difficult People at Work?

Whichever company you will work, you will always encounter some difficult people to work with.

Such people may not cause any complete misery at work, but its effects, could matter a lot in your way of managing with those kinds of co-workers, and therefore, it can significantly disturb your focus on dealing with both physical and emotional well- being.

No matter what we do, whether we like it or not, we can’t avoid difficult people.

Therefore, it is great to know how to deal with difficult people in the workplace.

You will be encountering them, for people tend to be difficult specially if they don’t understand yet their role in the workplace.

Sometimes, we are given the chance to choose with whom to work with, but most of the time we don’t have any choice but to deal or to adjust in order to keep a long well with those types of people.

Every working experience in the workplace, will teach us something about the behavior of people who are working with you.

It’s a very challenging task and will take a lot of patience in when you dealt with difficult people and motivating them with compassion and understanding.

So if you are able to successfully manage them to follow your way, then it can make you a better leader and co-worker.

We can really encounter difficult people in every workplace, but most of those people will be manageable as long as you know how to deal with them.

But the biggest problem of those kinds of people, they don’t work as promised, their focus is always on what time they are going to finish, so their output of work is affected for these people become tired and lazy about their job.

Sometimes, we can ask ourselves, why these people become difficult, and once difficult, automatically, these people are not reliable but irresponsible, because they don’t care about something. Therefore, these people’s attitude become aggravated because there will be nobody who would like to work with them.

But since they are everywhere then can’t be avoided or hidden from your very sight.

If it’s only one or two, it might be easier to deal but what if are more which is definitely more.

Instead of making yourself do a final decisions on how to face such people, why don’t you make yourself loaded with all the skills that you’ve learnt on how to dealt with them?

We ourselves have needed to be checked as well for we might be having such kind of problem which is not easy to be handled.

Handling such cases like dealing with difficult people is not an easy task and it requires a lot of patience and skills because we have to do it efficiently and professionally with making it to cause trouble within the workplace.

Most employees with difficult traits are so reactive even on the smallest wrong action and reaction that occurred. Therefore, they mostly overreacted in any way they could.

The most important and most difficult step to take in resolving a problem specially in regard to your contribution in fixing issues about the matter of performance.

Problems on employees with difficult traits, they are so reactive even on the smallest wrong action and reaction that happens. Therefore, they are overreacted in any way.

-Know how to empathize.

It’s good to be considerate to people, so instead of being defensive and judgmental, try to look the whole picture of a person as human being which is liable to err.

Try to figure out his history, if where is she or he coming from, and what are their point of view about their situation, there might be something which they have not obtained that caused them to be troubled.

We are only observant around the workplace and we spend time with every person who has this problem, we might learn it easily and then we can start looking for solution on how to resolve this issue.

The more we know ourselves is the more patience we have for others, and if we apply the same regard to ourselves then we can be more considerate with everyone.

So the focus should be on how we can help them be taken out from such situation which is affecting their performance.

We should not judge them with their first offense however, we should investigate them on why they are like that? And what caused them to be that way?

By doing so, you will be teaching them to realize that they have done something unusual that needed to be changed, and then they will start to be not anymore difficult to dealt with automatically.

-There should be no any personal matters involve in dealing with difficult people.

We need to make sure that our facial expression and our non-verbal behaviors will not be misinterpreted that we seemed have a personal problem with them.

Our goal is to make them realize and learn that they are not doing the right thing as employee, and we need to at least gradually educate and train them in the nicest way as possible so that we can change to what really should be is the proper way of communicating, talking, and what is the role of an employee of the company.

Sometimes, there are behaviors that we don’t appreciate, but those behaviors have to be observed, because, we don’t know exactly what is happening around, there might be something personal that they are struggling to deal with or something else which we will only know once it’s being shared.

So once again it is so vital that we being the one to handle such people, we should always not forget to be patient and kind with them in order to properly correct them without causing any trouble but with the full acceptance of the way.

-Find the solution.

There is no problem that has no solution or else if there is none then it’s not a problem anymore but a reality.

When you feel that things are getting tougher, try to find out how to get our of there, make a challenge of yourself to be focusing only on solutions not a problem.

It’s definitely not easy, but if you approach it with curiosity, you will learn the deeper part of it.

Listening is very important, be open-minded and not judgmental, you are going to find it that things are just simple it’s just us that insisted and made it difficult.

Ask if there is any problem between you or the other colleagues and make them understand that they need time to adjust specially if nobody from their whole lives have used this way of dealing with them.

-Be of a forward-looking in order to view a wider understanding of a thing.

It is inevitable that when we are being shouted or yelled the tendency is we will be triggered to feel upset as our first sudden reaction of the situation. Thereby, if we start to feel angry with someone, before we say or do something, we might regret at the end, we need to have a deeper breath and to come down.

The more we put off our feelings is the more we can figure out what really is happening, and the way we handle issue, can be of a better outcome because slowing down ourselves will reduce our temper and a possible big problem can be avoided.

So always avoid thinking negative conclusion right away. However, show up with more ways in analyzing the situation before judging.

Never personalized other people’s characteristics, try to look at them with wider consideration in order to avoid possible misunderstanding.

Be always encouraged by your career plans and wishes, figure out what you need to accomplish for the coming years, be aware about individual roles specially those working with you.

-Relax yourself no matter what happens

Having no control of your temper will end up in a lot of negative reaction because angry countenance is contagious.

Showing that you are upset is not the good idea or strategy to make the person moved, and it’s better to be just calm so that you can be heard and understood well about your objective towards the person.

Person who is acting very calmly, can be seen as being in control, and you can gather more people to pay respect on you.

Everybody loves to work with people who are relaxed and calm rather than those who are impulsive and in a rush.

When they notice your calmness to situation even though they did something which is not appropriate, they will start to get their serious attention.

Respect people of who they are.

Respect others like how you want to be respected, the behavior you’ve shown will be returning to you.

So make sure, the treatment you’ve shown is pleasing to them, or else don’t be surprised that you will get exactly as you showed, as the famous verse of the bible written by Luke says:

Luke 6:31 Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Concentrate on what should be done.

Listening is one of the best ways in focusing yourself on how to deal with unreasonable people. Everyone wants that they are given attentions, the more they are being attended with their needs is the more they feel being recognized and acknowledge.

Give everyone your full attention, by listening to them actively, and be ready on what to say next.

Even when situation seems emotionally active, try to refrain from unusual breathing, which might be interpreted negatively and wrong by the surrounding people.

Nobody knows about everyone of us, we don’t know what other people be experiencing. Probably, if there is any unreasonable feelings we have shown, it will not do any help of the situation. However, it might even aggravate from easy to difficult situation.

Francisco,

Founder of Bookworm or https:franciscorondinalaurito.com Website.