Task 1. Analyze the description of 7 Difficult Personality Types, Bordeline Personality Disorders and the bio facts of Steve Jobs, Princess Diana and Mike Tyson. Identify the personality profile of one of these celebrities, offering supporting arguments for your interpretation. Present your answer in the form of a 5-phrase paragraph. 7 Difficult Personality Types: · Seven Difficult Personality Types · Passive Aggressors · A Hardcore Bully · Princess Syndrome · Childish Adults (the Baby Type) · People-Pleaser · Non-Team Players · Bordeline Personality Disorders · How to Recognize Someone with a Bordelier Personality Disorder · Bordeline’s experiences Famous people rumored to be difficult to work with: |
(a) reflect on the behavior patterns of people surrounding you at the workplace, students you are teaching or colleges you are working with and identify the most frequent difficult personality type(s) you meet in the working environment of American Councils Moldova;
(b) fFor each mentioned type, state 2-3 conflict situations you usually face while working with these types of people, mentioning the often reasons the issues or misunderstandings occur. What would be the appropriate measures you could take when dealing with each difficult type?
Use the resources posted below as guidelines.
a) Passive Aggressors: Tips for Dealing with a Passive-aggressive Personality Stop Being a Passive Aggressor Right Words to Tell to a Passive Aggressor b) Negative Nancy: How to manage a negative employee How to break the cycle with negative coworkers Motivating the negative Nancy on your team c) Princess Syndrome: Combating the Office Princesses Dealing with Princesses at Work d) Baby type: Tame your terrible office tyrant How to deal with childish adult | e) People-Pleaser: People Pleaser on the Job 21 Tips to Stop Being a People-pleaser Dealing with people-pleasers f) Non-Team Players: Coping with a Non-Player How to Work with Someone who isn’t a Team Player g) A Hardcore Bully: Strategies Against Bullying at Work h) Bordeline Personality Disorders: How to Manage an Employee with Personality Disorders |
Task 3: 5 steps in dealing with difficult co-workers. Explore the resources below and put together a list of 5 strategies you could use when dealing with difficult co-workers. · How to manage difficult but talented employees · Ten keys of handling unreasonable difficult people · Managing groups and teams · Nightmare employees · Dealing with difficult people |