Dealing with Difficult Behaviours
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Interpersonal and communication skills
Solutions for a Positive Work Environment
Almost every organization has people whose personality, behaviour, attitude, work habits or other characteristics present an occasional or frequent challenge for those around them. this workshop will provide you with practical tools and skills to handle difficult people whether or not you have sufficient positional authority.
In this course, you’ll learn to distinguish between various types of difficult behaviour, and chose responses that have a high probability of succeeding rather than escalating a difficult situation. Develop analytical skills, specialized communication, confronting skills, interpersonal negotiating, coaching, plus stress and conflict management strategies.
At the end of this workshop, you will be able to:
- Identify a “difficult person”
- Explore the reasons why a person is difficult
- Conduct a feedback meeting with a high performer as well as a “difficult person”
- Handle your personal anger and that of others
- Understand aggressive, assertive, and passive behaviours
- Deal with negative behaviour
- Understand the importance of communication when dealing with a difficult person
- Be an active listener
- Deal with conflict
- Negotiate win-win solutions
The 6 Types of Difficult People
- Reasons for the behaviour
- Develop strategies for dealing with them
The 10 Most Unwanted Behaviour Styles
- Understand the 10 most unwanted behaviour styles
- Develop strategies on how to work with other behaviour styles
10 Linguistic Viruses that Create Unhealthy Communication
- Develop strategies to overcome the usage of linguistic viruses
- Linguistic viruses create unhealthy communication by:
- Making unclear requests of another
- Making requests in the tone (or mood) of a demand
- Asserting one’s ungrounded opinion as factual for everyone
- Not possessing the ability to say ‘no’ to an unreasonable or impossible request or assuming that the other will ‘know’ what is desired, without even making a request
How to Separate the People from the Problem
- Learn how to focus on interests not positions
How to Deal with Negativity
- Recognizing negativity
- 4 steps to turning it around
Handling Anger in Ourselves and Others
- 4 ways of handling our anger
- How to diffuse someone’s anger
- What to do if the other person persists
Communication Skills for Handling Difficult Situations
- Perception checks- Making sure you understand before you act
- Questioning skills- Getting the right information
- Active listening- Drawing them out without defensiveness
- Offer information to gain information- Gaining trust through disclosure
- Reading and responding to non-verbals- Using techniques to detect lying, withholding, hidden anger and other feelings
Communicating Assertively
- Distinguishing between aggressiveness and assertiveness
- 3 steps to more assertive behaviour
- Using power and authority in a positive way
Coaching a Difficult Employee
- How to reinforce good performance
- How to handle substandard performance
- Handling sensitive personal issues
- Dealing with repeated unacceptable performance
Dealing with Conflict
- Recognizing the strengths and vulnerabilities of our own style
- 5 key steps to managing interpersonal conflict
- Negotiating to win-win solutions
When Nothing Else Works: Next Best Solutions
- Planning actions
- Discipline without punishment
- Managing your stress
- Following up
There are no prerequisites for this course
Executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, project mangers and anyone else impacted by the effects of negativity in the work place due to a “difficult person”.
This workshop addresses:
- Achievement and Results Orientation
- Adaptability and Flexibility
- Analytical Thinking
- Change Management and Leadership
- Client Service
- Communication
- Conflict Resolution
- Dealing with Difficult Situations
- Emotional Intelligence
- Engagement and Motivation
- Impact and Influence
- Innovation and Initiative
- Interpersonal Relations
- Leadership
- Learning Support and Continuous Learning
- Management Excellence
- Negotiating Techniques
- Problem Solving
- Promotion
- Public Speaking and Presenting
- Relationship and Network Building
- Teamwork and Cooperation
- Values and Ethics
- Working with Others
To learn more about core competencies, click here.
Open to all members of the public.
$ 1050 plus tax
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