Working with Difficult People

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Free Online Course: Working with Difficult People provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 1-2 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Working with Difficult People is taught by Chris Croft.

Overview
  • Learn methods for recognizing the characteristics of some of the most common types of difficult people, and discover how to deal with these individuals more effectively.

Syllabus
  • Introduction

    • Welcome
    1. How to Identify and Understand Difficult People
    • Is it you?
    • Three levels of a difficult person
    • Incompetence in more detail
    • Aggressive and passive behaviours
    • Control dramas
    2. Tactics and Techniques
    • The only two options
    • The second option: Changing them
    • Dealing with aggressive people
    • Handling passive-aggressive people
    • Negative people
    • Procrastinators
    • Understanding games players
    • Games players: What can be done
    • Selfish people
    • Childish people
    • People with bad habits
    3. Difficult People at Work
    • What’s different about problems at work
    • Conquer your own negative thinking
    • Handle aggressive behaviour at work
    • When the difficult person is your boss
    • Micromanagers
    Conclusion
    • Summing up