To skillfully handle difficult people, it’s important for someone to “be flexible in their point of view, and be able to, no matter how rigid the other person is being, access some empathy towards the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With traits like those, it's pretty clear that dealing with difficult people isn't an easy task—but it's a doable one. The ...

I've got a difficult person in my professional life. No, it's not you. But, for a long time, I was stressed out every time I had to work with this person. I'd feel nervous before our conversations and ...

The turbulence started just as Erin opened her laptop. A founder-turned-podcast-host, she’d been traveling for weeks—sponsorship meetings, recordings, partner dinners. Now, somewhere over the Midwest, ...

Relationships can feel like both a blessing and the bane of your existence, a source of joy and a source of frustration or resentment. At some point, each of us is faced with a clingy child, a ...

When I was in law school, people used to say: “If you don’t know who the class jerk is, it’s you.” Actually, they didn’t say “jerk,” but you get the point. And it rang true. It also gave me a quiet ...

People who make your life more difficult may be aging you faster, according to recent research. In the study, published last month in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers found ...

Both in the office and in our personal lives, it is safe to assume that we will encounter difficult people. The key is to brace ourselves with easy-to-apply strategies so that we remain as calm and ...

Most of us have dealt with that person before, right? Someone we’d classify as “difficult.” Someone we don’t like to spend time with, or who makes us feel stressed. We all have at least one person in ...