Dealing with people effectively is an art, but it becomes a more demanding art when you come across difficult people.Difficult people exist in variety. Conflicts do arise at workplace. The question is; how to make people easier to be dealt with. First of all you should know the difference between difficult and Unacceptable. If someone is abusive or you can say; is sexually harassing; that is not difficult but unacceptable.

Not always people are difficult just because they want to be difficult. You should need to find out if they are difficult with you in particular; or it is how they are with everyone.If they are difficult with you only, there could be more ways to mold them much easily.

You might have not been up to what they want from you, or you might be doing it but not in the way they want it. If you exaggerate for no reason, do not do your job the way you should,  or always find faults in others, this can give them a good reason to be difficult. You need to improve; unless you don’t do it, it won’t work for you.

If people are difficult in general, you have to address them. Unaddressed problems do not get resolved. Sometimes people are difficult because they think that you give no value to their voice; they feel insecure; and in order to show their importance they try to be difficult.

Difficulty with coping up the new job can also make people difficult. Those people really deserve empathy and kind words, because this can help them get out of the situation. Be patient, do not try to set yourself up as something just because you know things better.

You have to make people realize that they are difficult; and if they continue to be, you are more likely not to recommend others also to do work with them.

Negotiate with them. Be agreeable and easy. They might not know that what thier actions are doing to you.  play smartly. Confront with difficult person publicly because some people are prone to it if you keep telling that to stop from what they are doing in private.