Managing Difficult People & Situations
Managing Difficult People & Situations
Managing Difficult People & Situations – Communications Training
(Half-day)
Professionals across a range of industries frequently encounter challenging interactions with stakeholders. These situations can create problems and require tactful communication and conflict resolution skills to navigate. Our half-day Managing Difficult People & Situations Training in Northern Ireland aims to equip participants with a practical and comprehensive framework for managing these scenarios with professionalism.
Target audience: Staff who regularly have to deal with difficult stakeholders.
Course aims: The aim of the training is to provide delegates with a set of practical strategies and approaches to effectively manage difficult people and situations.
Specifically, the course will:
- Promote correct mind-sets and approaches when handling difficult people & situations to achieve positive outcomes and perceptions;
- Underscore how personal responses either fuel or defuse potentially difficult situations and the need to control own reactions to aggressive and abusive customers;
- Raise personal confidence and competency levels in selecting and deploying specific strategies to defuse and/or de-escalate emotionally charged situations and people;
- Re-enforce the need to select & utilise appropriate communication style(s) when dealing with difficult people and situations including when to use calm responses; apologetic and assertive styles; and
- Build personal resilience levels going forward.
Delivery approach
Heavy focus on practical skills development using work-related scenarios and exercises. Limited use of MS PowerPoint.
Workshop Content
- Understanding the causes of difficult behaviour
- Evaluating your responses to difficult people & situations and how this could fuel or de-fuse a difficult situation or angry customer
- Strategies for developing an empathetic & professional mind-set to managing self and own responses including not taking personal offense.
- Understanding types of difficult people including “ramblers”, “volcanoes”, “clams”, “compulsive complainers” etc and strategies for successfully handling each type.
- Essential Communication Skills and Styles including selecting appropriate styles for different situations
- Effective complaint handling
- Conflict resolution strategies
- Strategies for handling verbal abuse and aggressive communications.
- Skills practice throughout
- Course summary
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