Dealing with Difficult Participants

Dealing with Difficult Participants
Author: Bob Pike
Publisher: Pfeiffer
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997-10-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780787911164

If you deal with difficult participants in your training sessions,you know the destructive effect they can have on their ownlearning, as well as on the group's learning process. This helpfulguide book provides you with the knowledge and skills needed todeal with almost any difficult participant. You'll learn first how to identify the types of difficultparticipants, and then how to decide which technique (127 in all)is best suited for dealing with that individual. Finally, you'lllearn the steps of each technique and how to achieve maximumresults. Learn to deal with "difficult participant" types such as: * The Latecomer * The Preoccupied * The Introvert * The Domineering . . . and more! Don't let difficult participants get the best of you. Maximize thelearning potential in all your training sessions with Dealing withDifficult Participants!

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.

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.

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

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.

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: Roy C. Lilley
Publisher: Kogan Page Publishers
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780749447519

Dealing with Difficult People looks at individual behaviour, what drives it and how to cope with it. It explains how to recognize and understand difficult people and their actions as a means to resolve problematic situations and awkward issues. A practical, accessible book, it is essential reading for managers looking to improve performance, sales people looking to win more business and for anyone who has to deal with difficult colleagues or the public.

How to Manage Difficult People

How to Manage Difficult People
Author: Alan Fairweather
Publisher: Elliot Right Way Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780716023982

Dealing with difficult customers, colleagues, uncooperative staff, a manipulative boss - or an irritating neighbour - is a challenge many people face daily. This book shows how to identify and understand challenging behaviours, how to manage them and how to reduce stress.

Who's Pushing Your Buttons?

Who's Pushing Your Buttons?
Author: John Townsend
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2007-09-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1418588288

Button-pushers come in all shapes and sizes, but they have one thing in common: Their behavior drives us crazy and makes us dream of ways to escape the mess we're in. The person who pushes your buttons is likely someone who matters to you – a spouse, a parent, a boss, a fellow church member. Almost always this difficult person is connected to you by blood, love, faith, or money, so you can't just end the relationship without causing pain and upheaval in your life. Our friends and today's culture will often advise us to abandon such relationships quickly – to end this unpleasant chapter and get on with our lives. Psychologist and author Dr. John Townsend disagrees, "Your button-pusher is not someone you would easily and casually leave. You are intertwined at many levels. It is worth the trouble to take a look at the ways the relationship you had, and want, can be revived and reborn." In this easy-to-read book he offers Expert insights to help you understand your own button-pusher Wise assistance in determining the nature of the problem Compassionate help in identifying your failed attempts to fix things A hope-filled vision for what can be and how to make it come true Rich resources to help you navigate the necessary changes

Handling Difficult People

Handling Difficult People
Author: Jon P. Bloch
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 1440563276

Bloch provides practical advice for interacting with toxic personalities. Whether it's in the workplace, at home, or during everyday interactions, you'll find the strategies and tools you need to spot the ten most common personality types, and learn what to do-- or how to avoid these types of people altogether.