The hardest part of managing people is...
The people.
Dear Manager:
Working with difficult people can be… well, difficult.
There's the power player who sees manipulation as a tool for success. The credit grabber who steals all your best ideas. The underachiever who resists making even the smallest effort at productivity. The control freak who won't stop micro-managing.
It's tempting to quit, but you know that no matter where you work, you'll run into "challenging" personalities.
It's enough to make you scream, "How can I work with these jerks?!"
There's no escape from difficult people, but there is a way to lessen the pain. Coping with troublesome personalities is a skill you can learn – if you're willing to make the effort.
Difficult People at Work is our best-selling Special Report designed to help you identify and survive the 24 most common (and most exasperating) personality types you'll ever encounter on the job. It will show you how to cut the headaches, increase your productivity and find yourself more in control than you ever dreamed possible.
Find out what makes the Tyrant tick … how to put a Putdown Artist in her place … how to cope with a Coaster … and how to sidestep a Saboteur.
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Just a few pages into Difficult People at Work, you'll see why so many of our customers love it. And for a limited time, we're making it available to you at no cost when you try a subscription to Managing People at Work.
Managing People at Work was created especially for people like you – managers with teams to oversee, morale to build and deadlines to meet. People who need answers fast, and help at their fingertips.
After all, no one was born knowing how to manage people. And they're definitely not born knowing how to keep difficult people in line.
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Of course, it's not enough just to recognize which difficult personalities you're dealing with. You also need to get all those troublemakers on track. That's why we're also offering a free copy of our webinar recording Coaching Skills for Managers & Supervisors to new subscribers.
Your coaching skills are key to helping your employees become their most productive selves. And since no two employees are the same, you can't apply your skill set to your whole team in the same way. Different kinds of challenging employees mean you need a bigger toolbox of coaching methods.
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You're never going to have a team of perfect employees who complete every task with a smile and work together in complete harmony. But you can handle your trickiest troublemakers in ways that will actually have positive results – and that make you look even better as a manager.
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Sincerely,
Pat DiDomenico, Editorial Director
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