Working with Difficult People (2017)
1h 47mBeginner2017-09-13
Authors

Chris Croft
Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership
Course details
In every workplace, you're likely to perceive some colleagues are being more difficult to work with than others. Before you rush to judgment, you should determine if and how you might be contributing to the situation. (After all, it's entirely possible that you're the problem.) If you've determined that the problem isn't you, then this course can help.
In this course, Chris Croft shares methods for recognizing the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, and gives you strategies for dealing with these individuals more effectively. Chris provides practical techniques for dealing with a variety of different behaviors, including negativity, aggression, childishness, and selfishness. Plus, he explains how to overcome your own negative thinking, and get the best from a difficult boss.
Learning objectives
Identifying and understanding difficult people
Handling aggressive and passive-aggressive people
Working with negative people
Working with procrastinators and people with bad habits
Conquering your own negative thinking
When the difficult person is your boss
Dealing with micromanagers
In this course, Chris Croft shares methods for recognizing the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, and gives you strategies for dealing with these individuals more effectively. Chris provides practical techniques for dealing with a variety of different behaviors, including negativity, aggression, childishness, and selfishness. Plus, he explains how to overcome your own negative thinking, and get the best from a difficult boss.
Learning objectives
Identifying and understanding difficult people
Handling aggressive and passive-aggressive people
Working with negative people
Working with procrastinators and people with bad habits
Conquering your own negative thinking
When the difficult person is your boss
Dealing with micromanagers
Skills covered
Teams and CollaborationCommunicationWell-Being and Self-CareProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Welcome
1. How to Identify and Understand Difficult People
- 02 - Is it you
- 03 - Three levels of a difficult person
- 04 - Incompetence in more detail
- 05 - Aggressive and passive behaviours
- 06 - Control dramas
2. Tactics and Techniques
- 07 - The only two options
- 08 - The second option - Changing them
- 09 - Dealing with aggressive people
- 10 - Handling passive-aggressive people
- 11 - Negative people
- 12 - Procrastinators
- 13 - Understanding games players
- 14 - Games players - What can be done
- 15 - Selfish people
- 16 - Childish people
- 17 - People with bad habits
3. Difficult People at Work
- 18 - What s different about problems at work
- 19 - Conquer your own negative thinking
- 20 - Handle aggressive behaviour at work
- 21 - When the difficult person is your boss
- 22 - Micromanagers
Conclusion
- 23 - Summing up