5 Strategies for Dealing with Narcissists

The Look & Sound of Leadership

Essential Communications - Tom Henschel

Education, Executive Presence, Management, Careers, Executive Coaching, Self-improvement, Business

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🗓️ 11 January 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

A leader is so furious with his self-absorbed boss, he considers quitting the company. He asks his coach to help him manage himself and defuse his triggers.

In addition to the five strategies Tom talks about in this episode, there are lots more strategies in his conversation with Dave Stachowiak on Coaching For Leaders “How to Deal with a Boss Who’s a Jerk.”

Tom’s wide-ranging conversation with Josh Dittmer can be found here.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Tom here. A quick word before we start. The episode you're about to hear was originally broadcast in the spring of 2015.
0:08.0	I'm reposting it now because in the last couple weeks, four different people wrote to me asking for tools
0:15.4	to help them deal with narcissists at work. I don't know what's in the water but
0:20.0	all of a sudden it seems like this is the right time for these five strategies.
0:24.4	I'm really glad to share them with you.
0:26.2	I'm going to pop back in towards the end of the episode with this month's gratitude,
0:29.4	but other than that, here you go.
0:31.1	I hope it's helpful.
0:32.0	Enjoy the show.
0:35.0	Welcome back to the Look and Sound of Leadership.
0:38.0	An ongoing series of executive coaching tips designed to help you be perceived in the workplace the way you want to be perceived.
0:45.8	I'm Tom Henschel, your executive coach, and today we're talking about five strategies for dealing
0:51.7	with narcissists.
0:55.0	Sean was battling his boss and he was losing the war.
1:01.0	The first person to talk to me about Sean was Ronit, the HR executive.
1:05.9	She said, in a world that was fair, Sean would win, but he can't win against Jack.
1:11.0	No one can.
1:13.0	Jack stirred people up.
1:17.0	Some saw him as a star blazing a bold path forward for the company, and hey, if some people got
1:21.8	burned, well, you know, stars blaze brightly for a reason right
1:26.5	Others the ones who had gotten burned seethed at the mention of Jack's name a lot of people were in that camp Sean a direct report of Jack's name. A lot of people were in that camp. Sean, a direct report of
1:34.8	Jack's, was just one of them. Ronite said, we really don't want to lose
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