How to Survive Working with a Narcissistic Person

Managing the Narcissist on Your Team: How to Lead Without Losing Your Mind

The Problem

They’re brilliant. Confident. Charming when it suits them.

But they also hijack meetings, take credit for team wins, and explode when they don’t get their way.

If you’ve ever worked with someone like this, you know how exhausting it can be. Narcissistic employees can drain morale, derail projects, and turn an otherwise healthy team into a psychological minefield. You can’t simply avoid them, and firing them isn’t always an option.

What you need are practical, psychologically sound strategies that keep your team productive while protecting your sanity.

The Solution

This 90-minute, expert-led webinar gives you the tools and confidence to work with and even lead and manage a narcissistic employee. And you can do this wiithout enabling destructive behavior or losing good team members in the process.

You’ll learn what drives narcissistic behavior, how to set boundaries that stick, and how to deliver feedback that doesn’t spark retaliation or meltdown. Most importantly, you’ll discover how to create a fair and functional environment where even difficult personalities can perform productively.

You’ll Learn How To:

• Recognize the warning signs of narcissistic behavior early—before it poisons the team.
• Communicate effectively with narcissistic employees and keep conversations on track.
• Set boundaries and enforce consequences without triggering unnecessary conflict.
• Provide feedback that’s heard and acted upon.
• Manage the narcissist’s sense of entitlement and need for admiration.
• Protect your own energy and the well-being of the broader team.
• Document and escalate issues appropriately when behavior crosses the line.

Who Should Attend

• HR professionals and employee-relations specialists
• Managers and supervisors
• Business owners and executives
• Anyone responsible for leading challenging personalities

Bottom Line

You can’t change a narcissist—but you can change how you lead them.
Get the insight, tools, and confidence you need to keep your team healthy, balanced, and high-performing.

About our Speaker, Brenda Neckvatal

Brenda is an international award-winning HR professional and two time Best Selling Author. Not only does she help business leaders get the people side of their business right, she is a specialist in crisis management, government contracting HR compliance, and mentor to rising entrepreneurs, business leaders, HR champions and professionals.

Brenda has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc, as well as US News and World Reports. She started as an HR sprout after a solid fourteen-year career in retail management. She really enjoys helping people solve their unique problems, and human resources offered her the ability to support her co-workers more. Having the benefit of working for six Fortune 500 companies, she converted her experience into advising her audience to use tried and trusted best practices that help small businesses achieve their workforce goals.

In her combined 30-year career in human resources and business, she has consulted to over 500 small businesses and C-suite leaders. She has optimized employee effectiveness and helped mitigate the high costs associated with making hasty employment-related decisions. 

She has been involved with employee situations where they have engaged in workplace violence, a near stabbing, deliberately inciting fear in other coworkers, stalking women, breaches of protocol around national security,  assault, suicide, death, homicide, and a potential active shooter. 

Brenda is a devoted volunteer in the Navy SEAL Community and is constantly finding new ways of supporting veterans of Naval Special Warfare. She dedicates 32 weeks a year working with The Honor Foundation to support the career transition of Special Forces personnel by providing them with her knowledge, insight, and creativity. 

Perseverance, integrity, and relentless optimism are just a few of the ingredients that make up what you experience when meeting and working with Brenda.