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QUIZ: How Do You Handle Difficult People?

Take this fun, quick and FREE quiz to find out just how well you handle the difficult people around your workplace!

 

Instructions: Think carefully about each situation, then rate your typical response to it on a scale of 1-5, with 1 indicating you'd respond relatively calmly and 5 indicating you'd be boiling mad. Once you're done, click on the results button on the bottom to see how well you did!

   


1


You miss a deadline at work because information you needed for the project arrived late from a co-worker.


2


You must wait an extremely long time at a client's office, even though you had an appointment.


3


Your boss criticizes your work in front of several of your colleagues.


4


As you're about to leave for an important meeting, a clumsy co-worker spills coffee on your clothes.


5


Someone else takes credit for work you did.


6


You discover an employee in another department is spreading gossip about you.


7


A co-worker continually questions decisions you've made during staff meetings.


8


A manager you're speaking to doesn't even pretend to be listening to you.


9


Another employee goes through your desk drawers without asking your permission.


10


Someone makes fun of your new haircut.


11


A co-worker borrows something of yours and returns it damaged — and makes no mention of the condition.


12


Someone brings their toddler to work and lets the child run around yelling and wreaking havoc near your work area.


13


At the very last minute, you're asked to make a presentation on a subject you're not very familiar with.


14


A co-worker keeps calling or stopping by your work area/office and interrupts your train of thought


15


A co-worker with less experience than you gets a plum assignment you really wanted.



 
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