In conducting thousands of seminars on dealing with difficult people, managing difficult people, and leadership for corporations all over the world, the one type of worker I hear about most is the negativist.…
Are you a difficult person? If you're honest with yourself, you can be difficult from time to time, right? The question is how do you deal with the chronically…
What We Can Learn from Dogs! By Colleen Seward Ryan “It’s not about being better than others. It’s about becoming better with ourselves.” Colleen Seward Ryan As you know, your…
This is to add some fun and humor to your day. As opposed to the well-known Serenity Prayer, this is called the “Senility” Prayer. Here it is: Grant me the…
As a leader, manager or supervisor, how do you attract and keep the most talented employees? In this struggling economy, hiring and retaining the best most productive employees is more…
“The person who constantly angers you or frustrates you…controls you.”Colleen Seward RyanDo you know any difficult people? Have you ever worked or lived with a difficult person? Are you a…
“Successful people form the habit of doing what failures don’t like to do. They like the results they get by doing what they don’t necessarily enjoy.” –Earl Nightengale Do you…
“The disease of me often results in the defeat of us.”Pat Riley of NBA fame All of us know difficult people. Whether we live with difficult people, work with difficult…
Most managers and supervisors in my management training programs were promoted to leadership positions based on their “hard skills,” or technical skills. In other words, they were promoted because they…
