Dealing with Difficult People and Challenging Behaviour at Work

How to manage 'difficult' people and deal with challenging behaviour at work.
Full day

Overview: Dealing with Challenging Behaviour at Work

We will all encounter unreasonable behaviour or a 'difficult' colleague at some point.

Often this behaviour has no real effect on us, but we can find it uncomfortable to observe. Sometimes though, it can cause us real difficulty and make our working lives unpleasant.

In this fascinating and extremely popular workshop, you'll discover how to deal with ‘difficult' behaviours in colleagues, staff and managers at work, and leave equipped with a wealth of tools and techniques to manage those that arise regardless of your attempts to prevent them.

What you'll learn

  • How to prevent difficult situations arising in the workplace
  • It takes two to tango – how our behaviour may contribute to others' behaviour
  • How to listen objectively (without making assumptions)
  • How to create more productive working relationships
  • How to deal with specific types of difficult behaviour
  • How to give feedback that works
  • How to manage difficult conversations
  • How to deal with conflict
  • Understanding and preventing difficult behaviour
  • What drives others' behaviour?

Developing skills for handling difficult people

  • Learning to recognise your own state and choose your behaviours
  • Learning to be calm in the face of difficult behaviour
  • Dealing with criticism from others
  • Reframing a situation and putting things in perspective

Feedback and difficult conversations

  • Structures for giving feedback
  • Managing conflict
  • A model for conflict management
  • Top tips for dealing with conflict

Who is it for?

This course is suitable for delegates at all levels who may be faced with challenging behaviour at work. This course will focus primarily on the needs of people facing challenging behaviour from staff, co-workers and managers. The content may also be helpful for customer or public facing roles because the techniques and behaviours learned will be applicable to those situations, but most of the time will be spent on managing difficult colleagues.

Your facilitator

James Perryman
James Perryman

James has built up his experience over 20+ years working with organisations across many sectors including telecommunications, travel, insurance, banking and FMCG. His work spans the range and diversity of a typical business, running leadership and talent development programmes, providing 1:1 coaching and business consultancy. He is passionate about bringing clarity, direction and a sense of purpose to individuals, teams and organisations – all aimed at helping people and organisations grow and become better for themselves and their customers.

He is regularly invited to guest speak at events, often asked to share his expertise on people's natural behavioural and communication styles, and provide valuable ways in which people can adapt their own style to engage audiences when presenting, and win business when pitching.

James holds a number of qualifications in project management, emotional intelligence, behavioural and personality type tools, and is a member of the Professional Speakers Association.

Feedback

Dealing with Difficult People course with James Perryman was exactly what I looked for. James took the time to understand why each individual was attending to the course. I found the course really useful, it was structured very well, clear and with examples. I have taken away a lot more knowledge and confidence which is very helpful to me in building my skills in being a good manager. Thank you James.
Really useful!
I attended the Dealing with Difficult People and Challenging Behaviour course and found it hugely valuable. There was lots of opportunity to reflect on behaviours and situations you encounter at work, as well as tangible tips and tools to take away for the future. I'd recommend it.
Hugely valuable
Great session with Hub events, the course was well delivered and very interesting. I would recommend them to anyone looking to better themselves in a particular topic. They have a variety to offer.
Great session
David Cotton clearly knows his stuff and is an exceptional instructor; great content delivered in an engaging and practical manner.
Excellent and useful
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Manchester
24/04/24 9:30 - 16:30
£590.00 (ex VAT)
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London
03/10/24 9:30 - 16:00
£595.00 (ex VAT)
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