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: 82
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

Secrets of Dealing with Difficult People

Secrets of Dealing with Difficult People
Author: Mark Lauderdale MD
Publisher: Wellspring Personal Effectiveness Inc.
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2010-09-17
Genre:
ISBN: 0973188812

As a psychiatrist and therapist I often talk to people who are feeling frustrated and stressed by a difficult person in their life – a difficult relationship, difficult people at work, difficult employees, difficult neighbours and difficult family members. Unlike other books, this 201-page book shows you a tested step-by-step problem-solving method to help you calmly and confidently create the positive change you want when dealing with difficult people.

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.

Difficult People Made Easy

Difficult People Made Easy
Author: Eleanor Shakiba
Publisher: New Holland Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781742578323

You're a competent professional. You excel at the technical side of your work. But so far no-one has taught you how to handle difficult people or toxic team dynamics. That's where this book comes in. Difficult People Made Easy explains how you need to think and speak when faced with a difficult colleague. Then it reveals specific words and actions you can use.

The Art of Dealing With People

The Art of Dealing With People
Author: Les Giblin
Publisher: Les Giblin Books
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2001-01-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0961641630

What is the one quality that all successful people have in common? They have mastered the art of dealing with people! Let this book show you how to: Achieve your goals Handle the human ego Become a master conversationalist Make others feel good about themselves And much more! Skill with people is the one essential ingredient for success and happiness at home and in business. "The Art of Dealing With People" gives you the skills to take your people skills to a level that you never thought possible! Skill in human relations is similar to skill in any other field, in that success depends on understanding and mastering certain basic general principles. You must not only know what to do, but why you're doing it. As far as basic principles are concerned, people are all the same. Yet each individual person you meet is different. If you attempted to learn some gimmick to deal successfully with each separate individual you met, you would be face with a hopeless task. Influencing people is an art, not a gimmick. When you apply gimmicks in a superficial, mechanical manner, you go through the same motions as the person who "has a way," but it doesn't work for you. The purpose of this book is to give you knowledge based upon an understanding of human nature: why people act the way they do. The methods presented in this book have been tested on thousands of people who have attended my human relations seminars. They are not just my pet ideas of how you should deal with people, but ideas that have stood the test of how you must deal with people. That is, if you want to get along with them and get what you want at the same time. Yes, we all want success and happiness. And the day is long past, if it ever existed, when you could achieve these goals by forcing people to give you what you want. And begging is no better, for no one has respect for, or any desire to help, the person who constantly kowtows and literally goes around with his hand out, begging other people to like him. The one successful way to get the things you want from life is to acquire skill in dealing with people. Download now and you will learn how.

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst

Dealing with People You Can't Stand: How to Bring Out the Best in People at Their Worst
Author: Dr. Rick Brinkman
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2002-02-27
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0071379444

The international bestseller--­­more than 500,000 copies sold! With their 1994 international bestseller, Dealing with People You Can't Stand, Drs. Rick Brinkman and Rick Kirschner armed a civility-starved world with no-nonsense strategies for dealing with difficult people with tact and skill. Since then, cell phones, the Internet, voice mail, and other technological wonders designed to bring people closer together have only made it that much harder to avoid "people you can't stand;" even worse, they've also created exciting new ways for annoying people to realize their talent for being pains in the butt. Updated and revised for the digital age, this new edition of Brinkman and Kirschner's bestselling guide shows readers how to successfully combat the whiners, grenades, tanks, snipers, close-talkers, pedants, and other rude, crude, and inconsiderate people who can ruin your day at work, in stores, on the street, in restaurants, at the movies, in waiting rooms, by fax, phone, and E-mail, and in cyberspace.

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!

Energy Vampire Slaying: 101

Energy Vampire Slaying: 101
Author: Dan O'Connor
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2011-05-26
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781463535087

ENERGY VAMPIRE SLAYING:101 How to combat negativity and toxic attitudes in your office, in your home, and in yourself In this program you'll learn: -The secrets master communicators use to keep their cool when dealing with difficult people -What free-style scripting is and how you can use it to defend against verbal assaults -How to use a power phrase and danger phrase list to boost your communication power -How you can prevent conflict from manifesting, using effective communication techniques -Problem-solving verbal patterns and scripts you can use to instantly increase productivity -How to use defusion tactics to slash the time spent dealing with difficult customers -How to respond, rather than react, when you're confronted with negative or difficult behavior -How to use magic phrases to respond quickly and effectively when you're put on the spot -Brain-training techniques such as hemisphere switching you can use to control your emotions when you're under pressure -How to quickly find the right words at the right time during difficult situations, and -Which free tools to use for mastering all of the techniques you'll learn in the program, and the right way to study, so you can develop your skills at lightning speed. "I have been using the tactics you taught with great success, not just at work, but at home. I finally had the breakthrough I've been trying for with my daughter. Thank you for giving me the tools I can use to change my life. I thoroughly enjoyed every minute! I'll take any book you have to offer." -Kevin Wahlberg -Dallas, TX

One Buddha is Not Enough

One Buddha is Not Enough
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
Publisher: Parallax Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2006-07-14
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1935209973

This is the ebook version of One Buddha Is Not Enough. How do we learn to believe in ourselves and not just rely on our spiritual teachers? Based on a retreat that Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh organized but then couldn't attend, One Buddha Is Not Enough is a book on how to become your own teacher and create your own community where you might least expect it. It offers fresh and original insight from emerging Buddhist teachers on topics such as how to handle grief, strengthen our relationships with family and friends, deal with anger and other strong emotions, and find happiness in the present moment. Through letters, stories, poems, calligraphies, and photographs, Thich Nhat Hanh shares his unique insights on illness, health, and different healing modalities. One Buddha Is Not Enough is a true expression of American Buddhism. We already contain all the insight and wisdom we need--and we're surrounded by the people who can help us on our journey. Sometimes all it takes is a wake-up call to remind us of what we are capable.