{"id":2218,"date":"2012-01-15T01:58:32","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T09:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/?p=2218"},"modified":"2023-02-06T11:53:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T19:53:57","slug":"business-english-skills-360-dealing-with-problem-people-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/15\/business-english-skills-360-dealing-with-problem-people-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Skills 360 &#8211; Dealing with Problem People (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-2218-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/360.20-Problem-People2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/360.20-Problem-People2.mp3\">https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/360.20-Problem-People2.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>The <strong><a title=\"Business English Skills 360 - The podcast that looks at the other side of Business English\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mybeonline.com\/category\/business-english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Skills 360 podcast<\/a><\/strong> is now available in iTunes: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/podcast\/business-skills-360-podcast\/id465088372\"><strong>Free Subscription<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve been looking at how to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessenglishpod.com\/2012\/01\/08\/business-english-skills-360-dealing-with-problem-people-part-1\/\">deal with problem people<\/a>. These are the people in your office that drive you nuts because they&#8217;re so difficult to get along with. Last week we talked about how to deal with specific incidents. Today, we&#8217;re talking about ongoing issues.<\/p>\n<p>This is about the constant thorn in your side, whether it&#8217;s your colleague, your boss, or the IT guy that gets annoyed every time you ask for some information. In extreme cases, these people can make you dread going to work each day. So how can we deal with them?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1.\tHave you had to deal with a co-worker who caused you continual problems?<br \/>\n2.\tAt what point do you think you should involve a supervisor when you have a problem with a colleague or co-worker?<br \/>\n3.\tDo you naturally discuss problems openly or do you tend to keep things in?<\/p>\n<p>[tp no_translate=&#8221;y&#8221;]<strong>Free Resources: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mybeonline.com\/business-english-skills-360-problem-people-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Transcript <\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/businessenglishpod.com\/quiz\/360.20QIZ\/presentation.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Quizzes<\/span><\/a> | <a href=\"\/quiz\/360-Problem-People2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">PDF Transcript<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Download: <a href=\"https:\/\/traffic.libsyn.com\/secure\/bizpod\/360.20-Problem-People2.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Podcast MP3<\/a><\/strong>[\/tp]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Skills 360 podcast is now available in iTunes: Free Subscription We&#8217;ve been looking at how to deal with problem people. These are the people in your office that drive you nuts because they&#8217;re so difficult to get along with. Last week we talked about how to deal with specific incidents. Today, we&#8217;re talking about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"default","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":"","powered_cache_disable_cache":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[45,44,34],"tags":[158,70,179,135],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2218"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20196,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2218\/revisions\/20196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/9to5english.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}