It’s hard enough to cooperate when we work with people in person, let alone across various geographies. Distributed teams are becoming more and more prevalent, making our ability to develop and manage relationships that much more important.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Be Compassionate
When analyzing other people's motivation, know that you will never see the whole picture. Your task, on route to maturity, is to do your best to be kind, empathetic, and compassionate to people who challenge you.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Develop A Practice
We make decisions more than anything else. Filtering information effectively forces us to learn crucial skills of prioritization and delegation—skills that enable or block our advancement. When the stakes are high and the pressure is on, learning how to embrace a daily practice increases our chances of not only survival but effective performance. Learning how to prioritize and delegate information for ourselves, first, helps us drive results more effectively with others.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Find Stamina
Like a seed, we are equipped with everything we need to succeed. We don't require perfect conditions. In fact, persistence amidst challenge and change is what serves as the catalyst for growth.
Read MoreDealing With Challenging People: Refrain from Judging
Your ability to evaluate others requires context you likely do not have. Instead, focus on yourself.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Find Patience
We know the right path is to practice patience, especially when it’s hard. Patience is a quality of emotional equilibrium and neutrality. Neutrality is where you enjoy the highest creativity, where you see to most alternatives to reactivity.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Ask more Questions
Being right, often, can be both a blessing and a curse. This is a good time for asking questions—but be strategic. Our hastiness to be right or to dominate comes at a cost. We miss an opportunity to develop others, as well as ourselves.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Opportunities Are Everywhere
Because we will cross paths with people who challenge our thoughts and reactions our whole lives, it's important to learn how to work with them sooner rather than later. They teach us about ourselves and challenge us to be better people. We can take comfort in the fact that, with the right tools and strategies, we can learn to deal with challenging personalities in ways that are constructive and help move us and others forward.
Read MoreDealing With Challenging People: Owning Your Worth
People with challenging personalities get us to react to them by threatening our Ego. When we are belittled in some way—real or imagined—we feel destabilized. Vulnerable, our natural instinct is to strike back or lash out. This is one reason, but not the only reason, that it’s dangerous for our Ego to be in the driver’s seat.
Read MoreDriving Results With Others: Going Beyond Worry
We have worries. We also have solutions. Our challenge is to trust that we can solve a problem with creativity and considered response instead of reactivity.
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