The Glue
Working more effectively with challenging people
This episode tackles how to work more effectively with challenging people.
Personalities and politics can present tremendous obstacles to our ability to do the work for which we are hired. In this episode we consider:
- How can we navigate these obstacles as effectively as possible?
- Which personalities and behaviours are we talking about?
- Should we be seeking behaviour change from them or focus on modifying our own?
- If you are a team leader, what should be your priorities if you and your team have to work with challenging people?
To help me answer these questions, I am joined by Ruth Berry and David Rosenbauer.
Ruth is a Leadership Development teacher, facilitator and executive coach. She was at EY for 10 years before becoming Head of Executive Education at the Judge Business School in Cambridge. She set up her own consultancy in 2007 and has advised partners and staff at over 100 professional services firms across the world.
David has spent the last 20 years as a coach and facilitator specialising in Leadership and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. He helps professionals at all levels of seniority build stronger relationships internally and externally. His varied career includes having worked as lawyer in Germany, and as a theatre producer an actor in Europe, the US and Brazil.
James Stringer is a former BD Director at Magic Circle and Big Four firms and is now a trainer, consultant and coach on business development, bids and offsites and he helps BD team members and teams be more effective.
This episode tackles how to work more effectively with challenging people.
Personalities and politics can present tremendous obstacles to our ability to do the work for which we are hired. In this episode we consider:
- How can we navigate these obstacles as effectively as possible?
- Which personalities and behaviours are we talking about?
- Should we be seeking behaviour change from them or focus on modifying our own?
- If you are a team leader, what should be your priorities if you and your team have to work with challenging people?
To help me answer these questions, I am joined by Ruth Berry and David Rosenbauer.
Ruth is a Leadership Development teacher, facilitator and executive coach. She was at EY for 10 years before becoming Head of Executive Education at the Judge Business School in Cambridge. She set up her own consultancy in 2007 and has advised partners and staff at over 100 professional services firms across the world.
David has spent the last 20 years as a coach and facilitator specialising in Leadership and Equity, Diversity & Inclusion. He helps professionals at all levels of seniority build stronger relationships internally and externally. His varied career includes having worked as lawyer in Germany, and as a theatre producer an actor in Europe, the US and Brazil.
James Stringer is a former BD Director at Magic Circle and Big Four firms and is now a trainer, consultant and coach on business development, bids and offsites and he helps BD team members and teams be more effective.