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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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