In: Social Skills
Dealing with Difficult People at Work
Every workplace is home to an insufferable worker or two, be they office
gossips, narcissists or lazybones. Such individuals can turn the office into a
toxic environment. However, sometimes your most problematic co-workers are
harboring deeper difficulties. Learn to identify and get to the root cause of
those problems before bad feelings begin to fester within your team.
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