Discover How to Deal with Difficult & Toxic People

Our Relationship Culture

- What is it?

- Why is it important?

- What can you do about it?

- How does it matter?

Wired for Fear - Negativity is catching!

When have your experienced or witnessed a negative situation "take flight" and "catch fire" within a group?

What where the outcomes? 

I know I have experienced several occasions when negativity took hold of a group. Michael Ballard

What occasions can you remember this has happened either to you or a group you interacted with?

Act or React: You're only human

Understand how your brain can be hijacked!

What can you do about?

Practise, Practise, Practise your responses to BIGStuff situations. 

Creating and Nurturing: Your Balanced Adult Self

What are the key points in this lecture that ring true for you?

What will you do to acknowledge the key points you are ready to and the ones you need to consider a redo on?

What are your next steps?

The Professional Self

WARNING: Some work place sites can cause us to:

 - rebel

 - regress

Then we pay the price. We do it for ourselves. 

What is your sense of self?

What is your sense of self accomplishment

Avoid burnout

DO you have a job that pays money

or...

Do you have a career that pays you and brings you a sense of fulfillment

Setting Boundaries

Why do they matter?

Where do we start?

When to they matter?

What are the types of boundaries we discussed?

With who, where and when will you get started?

Who can you trust and can help you practise?

Being Grounded

- When I first heard this I thought OH no!!!!! More granola and nuts stuff.

 - Grounding exercises can help with our:

• anxiety 
• stress
• productivity
• is a key component in managing our health
• connecting and engaging with self and others
• What would you add to this list?

Then during my martial arts training, then more than one of my fitness coaches and a few very successful friends suggested I'd find it valuable I "jumped in" with both feet. Wow... what a powerful and insightful difference it made. 

We know that dealing with people is not always easy. However at work learning to deal with difficult people or worse still toxic people can be a life altering challenge and exhausting; or once we master the basics and practise the process and skills we can increase the changes of finding the workplace more enjoyable and less stressful.

So, we've explored some of the issues that we need to learn to deal with difficult people. Also some thoughts on how to best manage those that are a challenge or toxic to deal with. We look forward to your feedback. 

Find Your Self-Culture

This interview with Victoria helps you better understand:

1.  What is Self-Culture
2.  How to develop yours
3.   How to strengthen yours

Michael is interviewed by the Irene Becker the developer of the 3Q program series.