Put-Downs: How to respond to them
Put-downs can hurt "If your brains were dynamite, there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off." (1) How’s that for a put-down? Not bad....
The Patronizer: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
#37: The Patronizer: a devil in disguise. The Patronizer is condescending. How’s your little job going? It was a Saturday morning and as usual I was...
The Dismissive: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
#38: The Dismissive type. Dismissive people are real downers. The Dismissive type of poorly behaved and difficult person let's you know they're not interested...
Self-Appointed Boss: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
This is the 47th blog in which I give a brief overview of one of the 52 types of people I've documented who...
Violent: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
#52: The Violent type. He caught everyone by surprise He marched in, fired off a volley of abuse and pushed over the water cooler. He...
The Yes-Addict: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
#30: The Yes-Addict. When things are bad, we need to know. If a project isn’t on track, if we’ve overlooked some glaring problems with...
Ten of the most common Relationship Wreckers. Are you guilty of them?
There are plenty of things said every day, in ordinary run-of-the-mill conversations, we need to weed out and throw in the bin. They're what...
The Loud-Talker: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
Welcome to another one of my blogs in the series "52 types of difficult people". This blog is about Type 10: The Loud-Talker. Unfortunately,...
The Overloader: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
The Overloader is unfair and unreasonable. Sometimes our workload is beyond our control. Do you sometimes have too much work to do? Well if the answer’s...
The Hogger: one of the 52 types of difficult people.
Welcome to my series of blogs “52 blogs in 52 weeks with each blog being about one of my 52 types of people...