Difficult Dialogue events are panel conversations hosted by CU Boulder's Center for Humanities & the Arts (CHA) that bring together people to discuss challenging issues from their own perspectives.

These six books can help ease tensions. By Louisa Kamps Earlier in my career, I worked for a hot-tempered woman who, according to an office rumor, had thrown a shoe at one of my predecessors. Rattled ...

Carol was deeply disappointed. She had hired someone she thought would be a superstar for her team—the peanut butter to her jelly—only to face one difficult interaction after another. It seemed like ...

Carlo Schuengel receives funding from the NIH, the Netherlands Organisation for Health Research and Development (ZonMw), and the Dutch Research Council (NWO). Or Dagan does not work for, consult, own ...

There are times when my emotions really get in my way. When I perform on stage, fear of failure makes my heart race and throat clench. Or when a friend says something hurtful to me, I can’t stop ...

Executive coach and author Nick Robinson illuminates the challenging traits of work colleagues and shares strategies from his book — The 9 Types of Difficult People: How to Spot Them and Quickly ...

We’re all familiar with burnout these days; feelings of exhaustion, frustration, and disengagement. While it might seem counterintuitive, setting a difficult, audacious goal may be the key to ...

Sometimes, when people don’t want to call a thing a thing (particularly with narcissism), you’ll hear them label someone “difficult.” The “difficult person” moniker has long served as a polite ...

Whether they're colleagues, clients, or customers, you’re sure to encounter difficult people at work. It might be someone who hinders productivity, rubs you the wrong way, makes you upset, or is ...