The Yorubas of South-Western Nigeria have a proverb: omo buruki l’ojo t’ire meaning “every bad person has his own day.” This proverb underlies the fact that some people could be incurably bad and difficult, but there will be a day when they badness will be the saving grace that people around him need.

Hold on! If you have a very stubborn and steely child, would you throw him out to the dogs? Would you disown him and leave him to injure himself because he is bad news? Of course not, you would find a way to manage him and even explore ways to help him channel his energies into more positive things. A difficult but brilliant employee could be so helped to be of value to the business if you’d only manage him and teach him to channel his energies to the good of his organisation.

What then do you need to do?

1. Give them a target to achieve: You may not realise this, but stubborn and difficult people have a steely determination to exert themselves and have their way in everything, and you only need to set them a goal to get them ticking away like a clock. Give a difficult employee something of challenge to do and you’d see him eager to prove himself. Difficult people are not necessarily unreasonable, they only want to do things their way and you must help them see the need to help your business in this light.

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