Disruptive Successor Podcast

Episode 76 - How to Handle High Conflict Personalities with Megan Hunter

Episode Summary

Is there someone bringing a lot of drama into your family business? You’re probably dealing with a high conflict personality and in this latest episode of the Disruptive Successor show, Jonathan Goldhill welcomes Megan Hunter, the CEO of the High Conflict Institute to give us some insight about HCPs. Megan will be sharing the different personality types to watch out for and how to handle HCPs and avoid unnecessary costs to your company. HIGHLIGHTS High Conflict Personalities 4 types of personality issues HCP in family businesses Handling HCPs Example of HCPs QUOTES Megan: “it's not a diagnosis, it's actually a pattern of a kind of a description of a pattern of behavior of high conflict behavior.” Megan: “High conflict personalities often do extreme things, they'll do things that 90% of other people don't do.” Megan: “It's probably more rare for them to stay in a job for a long period of time. But it depends on who is around them, and what kind of pressure is being put on them.” Megan: “Get to know someone, six months have them, you know, hire them on a provisional basis, or probational basis. And within six months, you'll see these things within a year, definitely, but probably within six months.” Connect with Megan and learn more about his work using the links below: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganlhunter/ High Conflict Institute: highconflictinstitute.com/ Unhooked Media: unhookedmedia.com If you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe, review and share with a friend who would benefit from the message. If you’re interested in picking up a copy of Jonathan Goldhill’s book, Disruptive Successor, go to the website at www.DisruptiveSuccessor.com.

Episode Notes

Is there someone bringing a lot of drama into your family business? You’re probably dealing with a high conflict personality and in this latest episode of the Disruptive Successor show, Jonathan Goldhill welcomes Megan Hunter, the CEO of the High Conflict Institute to give us some insight about HCPs. Megan will be sharing the different personality types to watch out for and how to handle HCPs and avoid unnecessary costs to your company.

HIGHLIGHTS

QUOTES

Megan: “it's not a diagnosis, it's actually a pattern of a kind of a description of a pattern of behavior of high conflict behavior.”

Megan: “High conflict personalities often do extreme things, they'll do things that 90% of other people don't do.”

Megan: “It's probably more rare for them to stay in a job for a long period of time. But it depends on who is around them, and what kind of pressure is being put on them.”

Megan: “Get to know someone, six months have them, you know, hire them on a provisional basis, or probational basis. And within six months, you'll see these things within a year, definitely, but probably within six months.”

Connect with Megan and learn more about his work using the links below: 

If you enjoyed today’s episode, please subscribe, review and share with a friend who would benefit from the message. If you’re interested in picking up a copy of Jonathan Goldhill’s book, Disruptive Successor, go to the website at www.DisruptiveSuccessor.com.