For many of my female clients the most difficult relationship they have in their lives is often the relationship they have with their mother or daughter. I am writing this post for a client. You know who you are. In truth though I could be writing this post for many of my clients and I [...]
“This week I told my family where to go – unfortunately I gave them the wrong directions”. I read these lines and thought of the number of people I have coached over the years who would dearly love to tell their family where to go. What is it about family? They can be the source [...]
In my last post about how to handle difficult people I mentioned that difficult people were often those who were carrying around a lot of pre- judgements. These are the beliefs, values and judgements they run their life by. Often the individual is unaware of the origin of these beliefs, assumes everyone thinks the same [...]
Dealing with difficult people was the title of a course that I was sent on as an inexperienced young manager. I didn’t particularly enjoy it because to me it was about dealing with staff who were individual thinkers and were seen as a “problem” because they did not immediately tow the company line. I didn’t [...]