If you are dealing with a difficult person at
work, I can guarantee you, it is definitely one of
these five difficult co workers. Every workplace
has one of these types of characters that I'm
going to tell you about in today's video. First,
you're going to meet your difficult co workers.
And then at the end of the video, we're going to
talk a little bit about how to deal with them and
where to get more free information to do so if
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Let's jump straight into it. The first difficult
person that you might be working with is Chad. Now
of course, all the names I'm using are fictitious,
Chad just as easily could be Brad or tag or Matt.
They're just suggestions that come to mind and
give me a picture in my head about who this person
is. However, I digress. Who is Chad? And how can
you spot them? Well, if you've been hanging out on
my channel for a while you have heard me talk
about Chad before Chad is just your stereotypical
corporate bro. While he could potentially be
really intelligent and really great at his job and
really talented chances are Chad has leaned into
mediocrity because he doesn't have to really be
exceptional. Everything's being handed to him
anyways, and why wouldn't it be Chad has lived a
very privileged life and everything has been
handed to him from an Ivy League education at an
institution you would not be surprised to find out
Chad's parents bribed his way into Chad fits right
in with the old boys club. The thing about
chatters, he's pretty likable. Maybe some of the
girls in the office have a crush on Chad, maybe
they want to marry him. And a lot of the guys in
the office really want to be like Chad. In fact,
some of the leadership team really wants to be
like Chad, and that's why they gravitate towards
him. And the leaders I don't want to be like Chad
are Chad and they love Chad because they remind
them of themselves when they were younger and
validating Chad promoting Chad and giving Chad
opportunities is really an act of self validation
because chats potential is their potential. And as
much as I bug chatter out here and over on
LinkedIn chat isn't really the problem. Typically
Chad is a nice guy, okay, maybe sometimes he's a D
bag, but really he's just swimming with the
current and the current is taking him to the
places that he wants to go. While he can be
pompous, undermining, and sometimes might take
credit for your work. He's typically not doing any
of that intentionally. He's just used to having
all things attributed to his greatness doesn't
make it less frustrating, but his bad intention
usually isn't there. I can't say that for our next
difficult coworker. Though, when it comes to
difficult people at work, we need to talk about
patty and I'm choosing Patty because Karen's have
been picked on enough but they're kind of the same
person patty is all up in your business, I would
say the source of 90% of the office gossip begins
and ends with Patty and whether she is digging to
learn personal information about your life to turn
around and gossip about and weaponized against you
at work or if it's just the knower of all
professional secrets. And what's about to go down
at the company Patty seems to have all the
information which would come in handy if Patty
used her powers for good, but she probably isn't
using her powers for God. In fact, Patti is
probably intentionally hiding information from
certain people and spreading certain information
to other people. Oh, in a great act of sabotage
because Patti is entertained by the workplace
conflict that ensues and there's a side benefit of
sabotaging your work which she really doesn't mind
because other people feel he makes her feel good
about herself. And if there was ever a passive
aggressive coworker, it is absolutely Patti.
She'll admit you from the meeting invite forget to
send you that report and accidentally tell on you
to the boss. The upside of working with Patty is
you know exactly who you're working with.
She doesn't really hide the fact that she's a
toxic co worker, she really owns it. But the next
difficult person that you work with does just the
opposite. In fact, you've probably been fooled by
this difficult person at work more than one time.
The fifth difficult person at work is a Rachel
Rachel is your Frenemy. The thing about Rachel is
she's really nice and she can be really helpful
and she's on your side and has your back most of
the time. Rachel's the kind of person that you can
turn to for career advice. And when she catches
you crying in the bathroom, when your boss yells
at you, she's gonna comfort you and tell you what
a jerk he is. But here's the thing about Rachel,
you trust Rachel, because Rachel has earned your
trust until there's something in it for her
whether it comes to throwing you under the bus to
cover up an error that she made on a project or an
assignment making you look bad when you're up for
a promotion that she also wants or starting to
unfairly criticized you to cover up for her own
insecurities or even using you for the contacts
and the influence that you have only to find a way
to make you look bad in the process of her
achievement when there comes to be a moment that
it's either you or her Rachel's going to choose
herself over your friendship. And really, this is
so many friends at work, and this is why I have a
whole video about coworkers not being your
friends. While I do think that honest and loyal
friends do exist at work. I do think that they're
exception rather than the role that sad having in
front of me isn't so bad because your front of me
Rachel just might push you to own your
awesomeness. market yourself an even put your name
in for a promotion that you don't feel totally
ready for all in the name of healthy competition.
The next difficult coworker we have is the one who
is going to drive you the most crazy we got to
talk about Nick, Nick is an ass kisser.
extraordinare there is nothing that Nick would not
do in order to win the favor of your boss, Nick
listens to all of the roles takes on every request
that the boss has is the first to defend unfair
and outrageous policies, the company hands down.
And if you break the rules, say something bad
about your boss, or make a mistake that you don't
want anyone to know about Nick is going to be the
first one to tell on you. Because one of the ways
that Nick tries to market himself and make himself
look good is by making everyone around him look
incompetent. Really underneath it all. Nick is
really insecure, even though he's probably pretty
capable of doing his job and doing it well. But
he's not loved like Chad is and he's not so
personable as Rachel and he doesn't really count
himself as vicious as say a patty, but no mistake,
misstep or secret is safe around neck and as a
knowing in ambition as Nick is. Nick isn't the
worst when it comes to a brace of ambition. And
that brings us to our fifth difficult character at
work we need to talk about and that's Avery Avery
is overly ambitious and extremely obvious about
it. Avery sees you and every other coworker at
your organization as a threat that they must
destroy. If you do something exceptional. And
Avery was even in proximity overhearing you bet
your bottom dollar that Avery is taking credit for
that work every overstates their contributions and
accomplishments on a regular basis. In fact, Avery
is so diluted, that they probably even believe
that they did all of this work, and that they
actually accomplished all of those things, which
would be much less annoying if they were just
diluted. However, Avery is also the type of person
that is going to actively and intentionally
sabotage your work, they're going to withhold
information or give you bad information. They're
going to refuse to make introductions refuse to
contribute even when directed to do so by a
manager, they're going to do everything to get in
your way in order to make you look bad, because
it's the only hope that they have of making
themselves look good. And really underneath it
all. Avery probably has a lot of narcissistic co
worker behaviors and a very fragile ego that lies
underneath. Now before we get into how to deal I
want to know which of these you have worked with?
Have you worked with Chad, Patty, Rachel, Nick or
Avery before? Or have you worked with all of them?
Let me know in the comments down below. And real
quick,
let's talk about how to deal with these different
difficult co workers that you are going to
encounter are Karasu your career. Well, first of
all, we just need to accept that these
personalities, these characters exist in every
company, there is really no escape from them.
However, now that you know who they are, you know
the persona, it's gonna give you clues on how to
deal with them. The first things first, when any
of these difficult coworkers does something to
agitate you to make you look bad to quite frankly,
piss you off. The first thing that you need to do
is you need to make sure that you do not react to
them. That is exactly what all of these difficult
people are looking for. We don't want to play into
their game, we want to change the game. Now if you
want a deep dive on how to do that, make sure
you're subscribed because my next video is exactly
on this topic, how not to react to difficult
people at work. However, you need to do more than
just not react because when you're reacting and
managing these different difficult people that
you're working with, really what you're doing is
you as I just said are playing their game. And if
you want to be successful at work, if you really
want to nullify all of these different difficult
and even toxic co workers. What you really need to
do is focus on building your brand and your
reputation at work and the absolute foundation of
that is uncovering your unique awesomeness
quotient, your UAQ. This is honestly a game
hanger that so few people think about when it
omes to their career success strategy. Now, if
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onships whenever possible, or at minimum neutr
l relationships with the people that you're worki
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