Dealing with Difficult People: Try to become more aware of your own perception of others. If you are sensitive to the many different ways that people behave and react to you, your thought process for dealing with them will be as various as the different personalities you encounter. Interpersonal intelligence describes a person’s ability to distinguish another person’s various moods, feelings, and motivations. High interpersonal intelligence means a person will know how to successfully deal with each individual person they encounter according to their temperament. If you are lacking in this ability, you can improve over time by simply paying more attention to the way people interact. Notice how those people who everyone gets along with handle the various personalities they encounter on an individual basis and try to emulate this behavior. Ideally, you and this difficult person would be able to set aside your differences and come to a compromise. Sometimes, this is just not possible. So better yet step back and really examine the situation. Is it worth further stress trying to pursue a conversation with this person? Maybe another person would be able to handle the situation better.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 00:57:19 +0000
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