Difficult Personalities or Situations & Emotion Regulation

Mary Engelbreit, famous graphic artist, once said “If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it”

Dealing with difficult personalities or difficult situations is never easy.  Usually our emotions are high in reaction to the difficulty and our first instinct maybe to try to change the other person or the circumstance.  Both are impossible.  That’s why this quote is so relevant.  Dealing with difficult personalities or situations have to start with managing your emotions and changing the way you think about it.

See this one-hour coaching seminar + key articles below on how to deal with difficult personalities

Difficulties and Emotion Regulation – How to Guides

• 3 Common Traits of Incompetent Leaders & How to Work with Them
• Working with an Incompetent Colleague – When and How to Escalate
• Dealing with Difficult Coworkers – 3 Tips
• “Life is Always Just Beginning”

• How to Give Feedback Using the SBI Approach
• How to Improve Your Life and Work Today? Try OACS
• Four Deaths in One Week – Prioritize Life Now in Your Decisions
• 8 Subtle Signs of a Toxic Culture and What You Can Do About It
• Didn’t Get that Job Offer – What Should You Do Next?
• Why and How to Manage Stress to Work and Live Better
• A Little Humor – Here are My Top 5
• A New Reality Created by the Threat of Coronavirus – 7 Tips on How to Cope
• Coronavirus Situation – A Positive Perspective – 5 Reasons to be Grateful
• How to Be Grateful – Remember Your Current Situation is Someone’s Dream

• Want to Make a Change in Your life? Take this Six Weeks Course
• Impostor Syndrome – Definition and How to Use it To Your Benefit
• New Year Inspiration – 5 Ways to Become a Better Version of Myself
• 3 Soft Skills We Can Learn from Madison Bumgarner

Difficulties and Emotion Regulation – Real Stories

• How I’m Learning to Work with a Difficult Work Partner
• Interpersonal Skills Example – Can You Let It Go?
• How to Deal with Other’s Incompetence – 5 Tips
• Don’t Care Too Much at Work
• Dealing with Difficult Personalities – What Not to Do
• Dealing with Difficult Personalities – 5 Effective Tips

• Sometimes a Missed Opportunity is a Blessing in Disguise
• Turning a Sticky Work Situation Into an Opportunity: Jason’s Story
• How to Handle Being Overwhelmed at Work – 4 Tips that Work
• What is the “One Word” to Describe Your 2023?
• My Failures in My 20s and What I Learned from Them
• How to Deal with the Unexpected – Shift Your Action to Shift the Outcome
• I was Harassed at Work 14 years ago
• What Did You Learn from 2020 – 3 Tough Lessons I Learned
• I Have Been Crying a Lot and It’s Okay
• 7 Unexpected Blessings from “Sheltering in Place”

• Having a Bad Day or Bad Month? Read this and You will Feel Better

Difficulties and Emotion Regulation – Workouts

• How Would You React to These Scenarios?

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Best wishes to your career success! Work smart and achieve more!

Lei