#42 3 Tips to Maintain Your Composure With A Difficult Colleague

Do you work with difficult colleagues?

Over the course of your career, you are bound to butt heads with coworkers at one point or another; be it a small disagreement or totally different working styles.

Sometimes your colleagues can be difficult to work with. This can affect your performance and well-being to the point where you may even become anxious to go to work due to different stakeholders within your company.

If you have disagreeing, argumentative colleagues, it’s hard to know how to deal with them sometimes. It can create a hostile environment for the whole team and unpleasant working conditions.

The key to this is to learn to control your reactions, but that’s easier said than done, unless you know how!

In this week’s episode of the podcast, I share 3 simple tips to help you keep your cool!

Here’s the episode at a glance:

[05:04] What to do when a colleague is getting frustrated

[07:36] One thing you MUST do to keep your cool

[08:16] How to unlock your inner leader to resolve things quickly

If you’re having problems with a co-worker and don’t know how to resolve them, book a 90-minute strategy session with me.

On our call, we will have a very specific focus and topic, I will give you tools and a plan as well as the ongoing support you need to take you through step-by-step how to handle your problems.

Like Ciara Finnegan (Assoc CIPD), Human Resources Manager said:

“I had a 90-minute strategy session with Lucy a short while ago and it was a wonderful experience. Lucy has the most down-to-earth personality, yet is structured in guiding you in the right direction. I would have no hesitation in recommending Lucy. I left our session feeling focused and empowered.”