Episode seventeen: The one about how to deal with challenging people

Send us Fan MailThe Not So Breakfast Show Listen, laugh and learn as we share our latest thoughts about staying relevant, contemporary leadership and doing life right. Ish Cheyne is the Head of Fitness in New Zealand for global fitness juggernaut Les Mills. Sacha Coburn is the COO of Coffee Culture, a leading group of boutique coffee shops, and the co-founder of thecompanyyoukeep.co.nz.  Episode seventeen– the one about dealing with challenging people Back to work! Back to dealing with challenging people. Today we answer a question from Sara Green in the U.S. We all have people we know and work with who we just don’t click with. Sometimes it’s because they are terrible people (!) but often it’s because we’re at cross purposes or we want different things from the same situation. In this episode, we discuss what you can do to make things work more for you and we suggest questions you can ask them to try to better understand them. It helps to recognise the main differences that exist at work: pace (how quickly a person wants to think, speak, act, decide) and extraversion (to what extent is someone a lone wolf vs a think out loud tell everybody everything all the time). We send special love to all the Susans we know and we pay homage to Encyclopaedia Britannicas – especially the V book. SBIRSituationBehaviourImpactRequest Links Shout out to Tracy Minnoch!https://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.fiolife.com%2ftrainer%2ftracy%2dminnoch%2dfire%2dfitness%2f2&umid=9902db0f-d975-4e1b-a4dc-7dba5e2d7390&auth=7c73db9ae66f853d5210c3e10e592c5b58c3d358-bee303f55945ec215434a15bed55f4a5024f578c No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyerhttps://ddec1-0-en-ctp.trendmicro.com:443/wis/clicktime/v1/query?url=https%3a%2f%2fwww.penguin.co.nz%2fbooks%2fno%2drules%2drules%2d9780753553664&umid=9902db0f-d975-4e1b-a4dc-7dba5e2d7390&auth=7c73db9ae66f853d5210c3e10e592c5b58c3d358-89a1fdbdc105f0b28900da0ae29afad109f1d8d6 If you haven’t come across it yet, Working Genius is one of the simplest, most practical models I’ve seen for helping teams understand how they actually get work done. Not personality. Not fluff. Just clarity on where people thrive — and where they get frustrated. If you’re planning your next team day, offsite, or work event, I’d love to bring this to your crew. Find out more at IshCheyne.com