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How to Manage a Difficult Team Member

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As a manager, you’re no longer the individual contributor who can deliver results on your own. You’re now delivering results through and with other people. The challenge is you can’t count on having the team of your dreams. At some point in your career, you’re going to have to manage people you find challenging.

Embrace those situations and see them as opportunities to improve your own management and leadership skills. These are growth opportunities and the more experience you have of managing difficult team members, the better a manager you will become… and there will be fewer kinds of people you find difficult to manage.

To help speed your time to success, May Busch gives you 5 questions to answer that will unlock the solutions to managing difficult people.

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