Dealing With "Difficult People"

Talia Fox, CEO of KUSI Global joins KQ2's Jodie O'Brien to talk 5 tips to deal with "difficult people."

Life to bring to therapy?

C1 all of us at one point or another have been faced with a different person.

How we choose to react determines the success we have in those situations.

Talia fox the c.e.o.

Of leadership development firm is here with her top five tips on how to deal with difficult people in the work place.

Welcome.

Thank you for having me.

Let me first say, it's so difficult to deal with difficult people.

I have five things to do in order to make your difficult challenge a little easier as you go to work and go through your life.

The first thing is, maybe it's not a difficult person but a difficult situation or maybe you are the one that is being difficult.

Your first tip is to analyze am i difficult?

Get clear on what you're dealing with so you can have a strategy.

The second thing to think about when dealing with difficult people is don't try to just avoid it and get rid of it.

Don't look for temporary solutions.

Wherever you go, there you are and bring yourself with you.

Sometimes definitely people in situations are a wonderful opportunity to see what you have in you and to practice critical skills that you will use for your entire life.

I will give you a little tip here.

I think you will agree, difficult people aren't going anywhere and you better create skills to manage them.

Let's look at our third tip.

Own your ability to protect your peace and juror joy.

Just because people are difficult, just because they decide to be in a bad mood does not mean that you have to follow along and join them.

So protect your peace.

Protect your joy.

You can have control over how you fare on a daily basis the fourth one is, you are safe.

Your ideas are safe.

Your perspectives are safe.

Your political and religious beliefs are safe.

You do not have to defend them for anyone.

Get along with people who negotiate with people.

Just because someone holds a different view does not mean it impacts our puts your views at risk to know you're safe.

Lastly, as you're walking through you're life, can we just for today let it go?

Not necessarily the difficult situations but labeling people as difficult, we are preparing and planning for more difficulty.

As you know with pandemic and covid, we have no idea what the tides will bring.

In expect something miraculous to happen.

Open yourself up to that possibility.

That is great advice.

And what is funny about it all, it's true.

It's taking back control of what we want our life to look like and how we want to feel every day and not putting it in the hands of someone else's issues.

Thanks for being us with today.

Thank you so much.

We're going to take a break