{"id":9677,"date":"2018-05-03T11:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/?p=9677"},"modified":"2021-10-14T21:38:42","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:38:42","slug":"sources-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/2018\/05\/03\/sources-of-pain\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources of Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.<br \/>\n&#8211;Margaret Heffernan<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sources of pain.\u00a0<\/strong> We\u2019re talking about at work.\u00a0 Do you know people that complicate your ability to delivery and achieve goals? Do they deflate the energy of those they work with?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Perhaps they are:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disruptive<\/li>\n<li>Antagonistic<\/li>\n<li>Over committers<\/li>\n<li>Under performers<\/li>\n<li>Not reliable<\/li>\n<li>Lacking accountability<\/li>\n<li>Finger pointers<\/li>\n<li>Not accepting of differences or change<\/li>\n<li>Exhibits dictatorial behaviors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some refer to these difficult individuals as <em>sources of pain<\/em>, and the situation\/behavior that creates the difficulty must be managed (and the sooner the better).<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few tips that can help:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate whether you could have misunderstood the behavior<\/li>\n<li>Try to understand the intention behind the action<\/li>\n<li>Be respectful and factual \u2013 share your perception with the \u201csource of pain\u201d using facts<\/li>\n<li>Assess whether you are the only one experiencing the issue<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t focus only on the negative; could it just be a bad day or is it a consistent problem?<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t wait; address it immediately<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Human interactions often include conflict, (simply a difference of opinion\/perspective) and this can be inspiring, energizing, and thought provoking.<\/p>\n<p>Just remember that it\u2019s up to us as leaders to address any actions\/behaviors that negatively impact our ability to obtain desired results.<\/p>\n<p>Are there any <em>sources of pain<\/em> you need to address?<\/p>\n<p>QWIKTIPS \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.qwikcoachonline.com\/peopletek\/qwiktips\/t032.htm?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=Sources+Of+Pain&amp;utm_campaign=Sources+Of+Pain\">click to read<\/a> about 5 Common Leadership Mistakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate. &#8211;Margaret Heffernan Sources of pain.\u00a0 We\u2019re talking about at work.\u00a0 Do you know people that complicate your ability to delivery and achieve goals? Do they deflate the energy of those they work with? Perhaps they are: Disruptive Antagonistic Over committers Under performers Not reliable Lacking accountability Finger pointers Not accepting of differences or change Exhibits dictatorial behaviors[&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[80,63,76,151],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-accountability","tag-behaviors","tag-conflict","tag-pain-in-the-workplace"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peopletekcoaching.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}