Coping with Difficult People

Coping with Difficult People
Author: Robert M. Bramson, Ph.D.
Publisher: Dell
Total Pages: 242
Release: 1988-09-01
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0440202019

Bosses, friends, family members, they've made your life hell -- until now! Based on fourteen years of research and observation, Dr. Robert Bramson's proven-effective techniques are guaranteed to help you right the balance and take charge of your life. Learn how to: Stand up to anyone -- without fighting. Blunt a sniper's attack. Get a clam to talk. Cut off a Sherman tank at the pass. Manage bulldozers. Get stallers off the dime. Move a complainer into a problem-solving mode. Learn the six basic steps that allow you to cope with just about anyone. Reclaim the power the rightfully belongs to you in any relationship!

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People

Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People
Author: Renee Evenson
Publisher: AMACOM
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0814432999

How to Manage Work Relationships in a Constructive Way that Leads to Success. Learning how to maintain strong, harmonious work relationships is essential. Unfortunately, at some point in your career, you'll have to work with people whose personalities or habits make every interaction with them a trial. Communications expert Renee Evenson has written the definitive phrasebook on how to confront the situations that can arise when dealing with difficult personalities and bring about a positive outcome. Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People is packed with practical and easy-to-use tactics such as: 325 powerful phrases to communicate effectively, as well as powerful actions to take in support of those phrases. 30 common personality traits, behaviors, and workplace scenarios along with the phrases that work best with each. Nonverbal communication actions to back up your words. Sample dialogues that demonstrate how phrasing improves interactions. A five-step process for moving from conflict to resolution. "Why This Works" sections that provide detailed explanations. Often, an employee who can interact well with others and feels comfortable handling conflict will be promoted over an employee who possesses greater job or technical knowledge. From egotistical bosses to meeting monopolizers, you'll learn how to develop the skills to handle any type of conflict with anyone.

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Dealing with Difficult People (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)
Author: Harvard Business Review
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
Total Pages: 83
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 163369609X

Learn how to deal with difficult colleagues and clients. At the heart of dealing with difficult people is handling their--and your own--emotions. How do you stay calm in a tough conversation? How do you stay unruffled in the face of passive-aggressive comments? And how do you know if you're difficult to work with? This book explains the research behind our emotional response to awful colleagues and shows how to build the empathy and resilience to make those relationships more productive. Books in this series are based on the work of experts including: Daniel Goleman Tony Schwartz Nick Morgan Daniel Gilbert This collection of articles includes "To Resolve a Conflict, First Decide: Is It Hot or Cold?" by Mark Gerzon; "Taking the Stress Out of Stressful Conversations," by Holly Weeks; "The Secret to Dealing with Difficult People: It's About You," by Tony Schwartz; "How to Deal with a Mean Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How To Deal with a Passive-Aggressive Colleague," by Amy Gallo; "How to Work with Someone Who's Always Stressed Out," by Rebecca Knight; "How to Manage Someone Who Thinks Everything Is Urgent," by Liz Kislik; and "Do You Hate Your Boss?" by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries. HOW TO BE HUMAN AT WORK. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

How to Deal With Difficult People

How to Deal With Difficult People
Author: Gill Hasson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 215
Release: 2014-10-29
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0857085719

DON’T LET PROBLEM PEOPLE GET TO YOU! Whether it’s a manager who keeps moving the goal posts, an uncooperative colleague, negative friend, or critical family member, some people are just plain hard to get along with. Often, your immediate response is to shrink or sulk, become defensive or attack. But there are smarter moves to make when dealing with difficult people. This book explains how to cope with a range of situations with difficult people and to focus on what you can change. This book will help you to: Understand what makes difficult people tick and how best to handle them Learn ways to confidently stand up to others and resist the urge to attack back Develop strategies to calmly navigate emotionally-charged situations Deal with all kinds of difficult people – hostile, manipulative and the impossible Know when to choose your battles, and when to walk away Why let someone else’s bad attitude ruin your day? How to Deal With Difficult People arms you with all the tools and tactics you need to handle all kinds of people – to make your life less stressful and a great deal easier.

Dealing With Difficult People

Dealing With Difficult People
Author: Rick Brinkman
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 127
Release: 2006-04-07
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0071487158

Explains how to: Identify 10 bothersome behaviors and deal successfully with each of them Understand why people become difficult Use sophisticated techniques to neutralize whining, negativity, attacks, tantrums and more Cultivate the nine "take-charge" skills that prevent people from becoming difficult

Managing Difficult People

Managing Difficult People
Author: Marilyn Pincus
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004-10-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1593371861

"Managing Difficult People" helps readers identify and deal with personality types such as the bully, the complainer, the know-it-all, the silent type, the social butterfly, the rookie, the manipulator, and more.

Coping with Difficult People Workbook

Coping with Difficult People Workbook
Author: Ester A. Leutenberg
Publisher: Whole Person Associates
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Coping with problem behavior
ISBN: 9781570252600

The Coping with Difficult People Workbook contains assessments and guided self-exploration activities that can be used by practitioners with a variety of populations to help participants cope more effectively with the difficult people in their lives. Difficult people are everywhere. Difficult people are those who frustrate us to no end. (In fact, others may view each of us as a difficult person.) We encounter difficult people at home, in the workplace, school, grocery market, anywhere. Often how much they affect us depends on our self-esteem, ability to recognize hot buttons and effectiveness of communication skills. Because participants will encounter difficult people in all aspects of their lives, it is important for them to learn a way of dealing with them. In this book, we teach a specific model that participants can use to build positive relationships with difficult people.

Living with Difficult People--including Yourself

Living with Difficult People--including Yourself
Author: Miriam Adahan
Publisher: Feldheim Publishers
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1991
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780873065184

How to overcome emotional illness, especially the tendency to be overly critical of others and oneself, and grow spiritually.

Difficult Personalities

Difficult Personalities
Author: Hazel Edwards
Publisher: Penguin Group Australia
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2012-08-09
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1742536980

We all have people in our lives who frustrate, annoy or hurt us. Consider those who claim 'I'm always right!', workplace bullies, or obsessive personality types. And most of us hurt others occasionally, too. In Difficult Personalities Dr Helen McGrath and Hazel Edwards take common situations and offer strategies to help, including: anger and conflict management achieving empathy optimism and assertion making decisions about difficult relationships This is a reassuring guide to dealing with the challenging behaviour we encounter daily, as well as with our own. It's an essential resource for understanding, living with or working with people whose behaviour is frustrating, confusing or damaging.

Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People

Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People
Author: Mark Westmoquette
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-12-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 178678548X

This is a unique guide to coping with challenging people using practical Zen and mindfulness tools. It helps readers explore their reactions, break free from knee-jerk response patterns and see if these people may in fact prove to be useful teachers in life – troublesome Buddhas. This is a guide to applying the teachings of mindfulness and Zen to the troublesome or challenging people in our lives. Perhaps you can see there’s often a pattern to your behaviour in relation to them and that it often causes pain – perhaps a great deal of pain. The only way we can grow is by facing this pain, acknowledging how we feel and how we’ve reacted, and making an intention or commitment to end this repeating pattern of suffering. In this book, Mark Westmoquette speaks from a place of profound personal experience. A Zen monk, he has endured two life-changing traumas caused by other people: his sexual abuse by his own father; and his stepfather’s death and mother’s very serious injury in a car crash due to the careless driving of an off-duty policeman. He stresses that by bringing awareness and kindness to these relationships, our initial stance of “I can’t stand this person, they need to change” will naturally shift into something much broader and more inclusive. The book makes playful use of Zen koans – apparently nonsensical phrases or stories – to help jar us out of habitual ways of perceiving the world and nudge us toward a new perspective of wisdom and compassion.