8 Real Life Examples On How To Deal With Difficult Coworkers

These 8 assertive professional leaders share how they deal with difficult coworkers, from disrespectful comments, ignoring you, trying to put you down, and not collaborating with you, or inferring that you are not competent, or refusing to work with you. In this episode, you'll discover: ✔️ A strategic power move that gets even the most uncollaborative coworker to collaborate without any conflict. ✔️ The right mindset to have when someone tries to put you down or tell you that you didn’t belong there. ✔️ The secret Socratic question that disarms people who disrespect you. ✔️ How to respond to a coworker who says “You don’t know what you are doing. You’re wrong.” ✔️ How to persuade a senior person ignoring you to apologize and want to listen to you. ✔️ How to handle people who question your right to be there or credibility, “I don’t want to talk to you.” ✔️ How to assertively respond to disrespectful insulting public comments by coworker. ✔️ How to deal with non-supportive coworkers even if you are scared of their reaction.   Episodes included How You Can Assemble a Powerful Advisory Team To Support Your Career (with Sabeen Syed): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-you-can-assemble-a-powerful-advisory-team-to-support-your-career-with-sabeen-syed How To Gain Support In Meetings By Building Strategic Relationships (with Diana Dreyer): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-gain-support-in-meetings-by-building-strategic-relationships-with-diana-dreyer How To Get The Job When You Don’t Meet The Requirements (With Director Jess Sahagian): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-get-the-job-when-you-dont-meet-the-requirements-with-director-jess-sahagian Speaking Up As A Female Leader In A Male-Dominated Workplace (With Shelly Jairath): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/speaking-up-as-a-female-leader-in-a-male-dominated-workplace-with-shelly-jairath Discover How To Make People Listen To You When They Try To Ignore You (With Guest Vishwaa Vaidya): https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/discover-how-to-make-people-listen-to-you-when-they-try-to-ignore-you-with-guest-vishwaa-vaidya How To Get Noticed At Work If You Are A Minority, Underrepresented, or Underprivileged: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-to-get-noticed-at-work-if-you-are-a-minority-underrepresented-or-underprivileged How This Female Lawyer Advocates for Others Without Being “Difficult” or Burning Out: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-this-female-lawyer-advocates-for-others-without-being-difficult-or-burning-out How Engineer Project Manager Joy Became a Manager For The First Time: https://speakyourmindnow.libsyn.com/how-engineer-project-manager-joy-got-her-first-manager-job   Free Resources: Sign up for 10 Day free Assertive And Liked Challenge: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/beassertiveandliked Are you a people pleaser quiz: https://quiz.tryinteract.com/#/5f29f89a6af2ba00140d45d0 Free resources: https://assertiveway.com/free/ Assertiveness free training: https://assertiveway.aweb.page/getahead Assertive Communication Newsletter: https://assertiveway.com/newsletter   About Assertive Way: Website: https://assertiveway.com Find out about our talks and workshops: https://assertiveway.com/services/ Rate the podcast on apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/speak-your-mind-unapologetically-podcast/id1623647915