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

Your path will inevitably cross with difficult people at work, whose challenging behaviours have an impact on your relationships, health and productivity.

Sometimes these people have a reputation for their behaviour, sometimes it’s unexpected and hard to manage. And it’s fair to say that sometimes your own professional behaviours become challenged when faced with difficult and challenging situations.

Many of those situations occur regularly in business, such as going through change, giving/receiving feedback and negotiating workload and collaboration.

Would you like to learn the skills, tips and techniques to help you manage these difficult people and situations effectively, whilst also protecting and maintaining your own emotional intelligence and wellbeing?

If so, this insightful and extremely popular course is the right choice for you.

What you'll learn

  • How to understand and attempt to prevent difficult situations in the workplace
  • 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 manage conflict
  • How to be calm in the face of difficult behaviour

This course gives you the knowledge and confidence to engage others in difficult situations, without the need for unnatural roleplay based exercises.

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.

This course gives you the knowledge and confidence to engage others in difficult situations, without the need for unnatural roleplay based exercises.

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 professional 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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09/07/25 9:30 - 16:00
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