Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People

Let’s face it.  We all daydream about the perfect job.  The perfect job would be one that pays me to stay at home and enjoy my family, but reality doesn’t offer that choice.

We must work to pay the bills and eat.

So, how do we handle the day-to-day task of dealing with our co-workers?  I’m sure you have one or more co-workers that get on your last nerve.   I’ve had troubles with a few co-workers – past and present – and have managed the situation to the best of my ability.

Further below you’ll read about a book I just read that helps with this co-worker issue.  The book taught me a few things, including:

• It’s not always the other person – I may need to adjust my own behavior.
• How to balance work life with life outside the job – While I don’t bring home job duties, I do bring home the problems and let them eat away my evenings and weekends.
• Controlled emotions bring better outcomes – Stepping away and giving myself some time to cool before responding is sometimes the best thing.
• Taking on everything threatens the ability to do well in any one area – Mistakes and low-quality work are the results of taking on too much.

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About the Book

Making a Game Plan to Deal with that Difficult Coworker, Supervisor, Customer or Boss

Let’s face it. Some people just don’t listen, don’t care, and aren’t willing to compromise. And you probably work with some of them – the incomprehensible supervisor, the person in the next office who chats more than works or the customer who, by the way, isn’t always right. For all those you come across at work who drive you crazy, there’s a solution.

Working Successfully with Screwed-Up People offers healthy ways to have good working relationships with those around us. Author Elizabeth B. Brown covers everything from daily annoyances to serious workplace issues.

Brown, the bestselling author of Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People turns her insightful eye to the workplace, showing readers how they can get along with and work successfully beside the people who drive them up the wall. “It doesn’t take two people to change a relationship in the workplace,” says Brown. “It takes one—me!” Her expert advice will help workers in any profession learn how to be unflappable, imperturbable, and unflustered when dealing with the difficult people in their workplace.

The majority of our waking life is spent at work. Don’t let difficult people drive you crazy. With Brown’s help and encouragement, you can make the changes that will improve your work environment and enhance your life.

About the Author

Elizabeth B. Brown is a teacher, a speaker, and the author of the popular Living Successfully with Screwed-Up People and the helpful Surviving the Loss of a Child. She and her husband live in Tennessee.

Available May 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.  Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group, offers practical books that bring the Christian faith to everyday life. They publish resources from a variety of well-known brands and authors, including their partnership with MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) and Hungry Planet.

Disclosure:  I received a copy from Revell in exchange for my honest review.