Often we come across with behavioral traits which we don’t like and try to avoid such individuals. But what if such situation arises at your workplace or your home wherein you cannot avoid such people, and you have to deal with them at any cost. Managing difficult people is really a tough job for everyone and especially the manager in office. It is none less than a challenge to communicate with them and getting work done from them in the manner which ought to be.
Difficult people waste a lot of time. They not only waste a lot of their time but waste a lot of your time. They bring you down. Team efficiency suffers if you & your subordinates simply avoid the person causing the problems. They can also affect you at all levels. The effects of difficult people vary depending on whether they are coworkers, subordinates, or your boss. The problems you encounter in dealing with a difficult person stem from one of the 2 source. When you speak of difficult people there are of various kinds like; one who makes unreasonable demands on your time, resources, & attention, one who takes everything you can give & then asks for more, one who is isolated & does not communicate with coworkers, who blames you & others for his mistakes, who doesn’t play by the rules unless they’re his own, who deliberately intimidates others.
When there are so many types to quote few can be quoted by yourself by your own experience. TO get rid of these problems one thing is surely gonna work and that is focus on the work that needs to be done by the employee apart from these developing relationship with the concerned is also is an excellent option, use the extensive counseling & documentation you’ve built up to begin a formal program of progressive discipline. Progressive discipline offers difficult employees a chance to turn their situation around, under the looming threat of dismissal. use the extensive counseling & documentation you’ve built up to begin a formal program of progressive discipline. Progressive discipline offers difficult employees a chance to turn their situation around, under the looming threat of dismissal. Be as diplomatic as possible to avoid any further confrontation in your work place. The focus of a manager should be the company’s objectives & not the person who makes his job & your job difficult.