Clean Break

Melissa Lafreniere MA, RP, QFAS is no stranger to CleanBreak The Podcast, having been a guest on the show several times in the past. Today she joins Darren to discuss her presentation about something that many of us are familiar with: working with a jerk! Melissa takes the time to point out that there are various subjective factors that can determine how we feel after leaving an interaction with someone, such as: are they too similar to ourselves and are mirroring things that we may not particularly like about our personalities, or is their personality and the way they navigate the world completely foreign to ourselves. So while we may not collaborate well with someone, it does not always mean that there is a pathological reason for that - it could be as simple as the way that we perceive and handle situations are different. Do you tend to have the same type of conflicts with the same types of people? Does it seem like a pattern? Understanding how you manage the response that others elicit in you is important