Dealing with Difficult People

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Mind map describing the various approaches to take when dealing with difficult people.

Example 1. Dealing with Difficult People

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Dealing with Difficult People

Tact and Skill
Identify Essential Communication Skills
- Essential Communication Skills
- Conflict Management Versus Conflict Resolution
- How We Can Handle Conflict
Fine-Tune Your Ear for Listening
- Factors that Impact Listening
- Ways to Improve Listening
Tune into Body Language
- Special Body Positions to Use with Specific Kinds of Difficult People
- Diffuse Anger in Others
- Minimize Threatening Behaviors
- Increase Communication Effectiveness
- When to go to a 3rd Party
Utilize Assertive Communication
- What is Assertive Communication?
- The Basic Assertive Message
- Advantages of Assertive Behavior
- Primary Goal of Assertive Communication
Identify and Build Communication Behavior Styles
- List 3 people you find it difficult to communicate
  - 1.
  - 2.
  - 3.
- Describe the behaviors that cause problems for you.
- Note how you generally respond to the these problematic behaviors.
- Now look at yourself. Identify at least one behavior that may need modifying.
Identify Your Personal Communication Style and Understand Others
- Analyze how you behave with other people and how they behave with others.
- Identify relative levels of assertiveness and task or people focus.
Understand Your Personal Style and Styles of Those Around You
- Map Your Difficult Person to Gain Insight into What Makes Them Tick
Strengths and Weaknesses of Behavior Styles
- Get it Right People
  - Strengths
  - Weaknesses
- Get it Done People
  - Strengths
  - Weaknesses
- Get Appreciated People
  - Strengths
  - Weaknesses
- Get Along People
  - Strengths
  - Weaknesses
Put Tact and Skill Techniques into Action
- Fundamentals for Dealing with Difficult People
  - Prepare
  - Listen
  - Identify priorities
- Steps to Take When Communicating with Difficult People
  - Establish a direction
  - Focus on the pattern of communication
  - Be flexible
  - Commit to a solution
- Tips To Improve How You Communicate with Others
  - Deal with the situation regardless of how complicated or emotional it may be
  - Stick with the challenge until your message is clearly understood
- Ways to Cope with Difficult People
- When and How to Let Someone Save Face
  - When
  - How
Get in Sync with a Difficult Person and Get Along Better
- Pace or blend
- Backtrack
- Clarify
- 7% Words, 55% Body Language, and 38% Tone
Take Advantage of Your Personal Strengths and Minimize Weaknesses
- Hot Buttons
  - List 3 of your hot buttons
    - 1.
    - 2.
    - 3.
  - Avoid Having Your Buttons Pushed
- Buy Time in a Conflict so You Can Respond with a Level Head
Know When to Salvage a Relationship
- Ask yourself if the situation is worth working on
- Identify Pros and Cons
- What are your long term interests
- How important is this particular relationship
- Are you dealing with someone who can really deliver on their decisions
Identify How You Can Influence Others and Maximize Results
- Things to Do When Confronted with Difficult People
- Keys to Stay on Track
- Ways to Get People to Keep their Word
- Handling the Person Who Says One Thing and Does Another
Understand Tact-- Confronting Difficult People and Situations
- Identify Concrete Ways to Deal with Difficult People
Identify Conflict Resolution Techniques
- Resolve Conflict
- Successfully Confronting
- Ways to Manage Conflict
- Model for Conflict Resolution
- Prepare to React
Put Diplomacy and Tact into Action
- Get It Right People
  - Technique1
  - Technique 2
- Get It Done People
  - Technique1
  - Technique 2
- Get Appreciated People
  - Technique1
  - Technique 2
- Get Along People
  - Technique1
  - Technique 2
Transfer Learning to the Real World-- Develop a Personal Action Plan
- Create an Action Plan
- Remember

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