Struggling With Difficult People?

Read this (also useful for relationships with great people)

There is a Huddle on Thursday, paid subscribers scroll down for the link. If you are looking for advice, need support with work challenges or just want to talk to awesome women who will always listen, then you know what to do.

At the moment, in the day job, I am dripping in awesome colleagues. Our learning team is positively weighted in the female/male mix, we are satisfyingly diverse in all senses and together we bring a healthy range of experiences and types of humour to the table.

This makes for productive and amusing meetings. Our Friday end of week wrap up has become a jolly farce of Teams effects (my favourite is the heart, try it, they pour out of your screen) and general banter, with a little productive reflections eaten as a side.

So, I am not here to talk about difficult people in my new working world. As part of my role though, I am designing new programmes, and that means lots of lovely research. Of course, people and relationships transcend every topic I unpick.

I have followed Justin Mecham for while and every one of his infographics makes me stop and go, ‘huh, that’s so simple.’ Of course, in the majority of instances, when you apply these simple frameworks to the real world, the stuff within becomes more predictably challenging, because, again people (usually our thoughts and behaviours towards ourselves and each other) tend to skew theory. Nevertheless, these clear expressions of complex thoughts are a great starting point. Like this one, below, called How To Handle Difficult People.