Working With People We Find Difficult Online Webinar

The colleague who pushes back. The person who dominates conversations. The team member who seems resistant to everything. The person whose behaviour frustrates, drains or simply gets under your skin.

Most of us can think of someone.

Working with people we find difficult is part of professional life. Yet when relationships become strained, they can consume enormous amounts of our energy, affect our wellbeing and make it harder for people and teams to do their best work.

And there is another challenge. Once we decide someone is ‘difficult’, that label can begin shaping how we interpret almost everything they do. We can become increasingly certain about them while becoming less curious about what may actually be going on.
Working With People We Find Difficult takes a different approach.

Drawing from Gavin Grift’s work on the Judge and Jury archetype in Emerge, this highly interactive webinar begins with self awareness and a deceptively simple shift in perspective: rather than seeing someone as a difficult person, what changes when we see them as a person we are experiencing difficulty with? That distinction is central to the webinar itself.

Bring a real person and a real situation from your professional life. Across 90 minutes, you will explore what may be contributing to the difficulty, consider how your own thinking and responses influence the relationship, and develop a broader range of choices for what you might do next.
The focus is practical and deeply human. You will develop ways to better understand the people you work with, manage your own responses, approach challenging interactions with greater curiosity and maintain appropriate expectations and boundaries.

You may still find the person difficult.

What can change is your capacity to work with them.

You will leave with greater insight into the relationship, practical strategies you can use immediately and a clearer understanding of where your own influence lies.

Because when we see the person differently, we create more possibilities for how we respond.