What to Say when a Colleague has Poor Personal Hygiene

A question I often get asked is how manager's / supervisors and team leaders deal with difficult situations. Here's a post that may be of interest:

What to Say when a Colleague has Poor Personal Hygiene - Work Relationships (UK): "What to Say when a Colleague has Poor Personal Hygiene

There is no point suggesting that this is an easy situation to deal with and, indeed, many people would not deal with it at all.

It could be far more tempting to just avoid the colleague in question, perhaps even make school boy gags about needing to buy deodorant or polo mints."