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Think about the characteristics of a person with whom you find it easy to work with and the characteristics of a person with whom you find it difficult to work with. Consider that you need to ask each of these people for a favor at work. What approach might you use when dealing with the easy to work with person? What approach might you use when dealing with the difficult to work with person? Is there one approach that you could use to approach both of them? Why, or why not?

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The approach that I would utilize in dealing with the person that is easy to work with would be to simply ask the individual for the favor that I am in need of. For the individual that is difficult to work with, I would have to time my approach to this individual in a manner in which I would be able to approach them ...

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