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How to Deal With an Annoying Direct Report

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23.12.2025

Strategies for identifying with and dealing with four different types of difficult direct reports.

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There are three kinds of annoying colleagues. I have already written about dealing with annoying bosses and colleagues. What happens if the source of your annoyance is one of your direct reports?

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