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Strategies for Dealing with Difficult Coworkers

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How Do I Deal With a Passive Aggressive Peer?

Sally Kohn: How do you deal with someone who's passive aggressive? She says focus on underlying message rather than the sort of snarky wrapping around that message. If you can make them feel less afraid, so show them it's okay to have disagreements, she says. "It helps you actually search for what's actually good about them because of the costs"

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