Supervising Difficult People
This online engineering PDH course presents a few simple principles of dealing with difficult people. The difficult behavior types associated with these people are as follows:
- The Bully
- The Complainer
- The Sniper
- The Crude Jokester
- The Gossip
- The Know-It-All
- The Indecisive
- The Emotionally Fragile
- The Unreliable
- The Slacker
- The Brown Noser
- The Phony
- The Minimalist (Least I Can Do To Get By)
- The Can't Say "No"
- The Volcano
A fact of work life for everyone in a supervisory role (this also includes the terms “management” and “leadership”) is that at some point, you will have to deal with difficult people. Unfortunately, their behavior is rarely difficult enough that you have reason to terminate them on the spot and be finished with the problem. No, they seem to do just enough to become a constant irritation for you but never enough at once to get rid of them.
No single person, book, or self-development source can supply the key to dealing with every variation of “difficult people” - there are just too many, it would be too big, and few people would read it. Fortunately, a variation of the Pareto Effect (“20% of something accounts for 80% of the events”) can be applied here: most of the difficult people you will encounter can be dealt with by understanding a few simple principles.
This 9 PDH online course is intended to teach existing managers and those who want to manage others how to understand and deal with difficult people in order to achieve maximum quality, productivity, and employee development.
This PE continuing education course is intended to provide you with the following specific knowledge and skills:
- When to act on irritable behavior with employees
- What to focus on before counseling an employee about their actions
- How to define their objections properly about an employee's performance
- Some possible reasons why people may be acting inappropriately
- How to define performance expectations in unambiguous measurable terms
- How to differentiate between being productive and busy for employees
- How to clarify "fuzzy" performance expectations
- How to develop a useful performance assessment that makes it easier to document performance and improve employee behavior
- How to identify the causes of performance problems
- How to identify what motivates people
- Specific questions to ask people about their performance problems
- How to determine whether counseling or coaching is appropriate
- How to counsel effectively
- How to coach to higher performance effectively
- How to get employees to stop doing the wrong things and start doing the right things
- How to identify the legal links between employees, supervisors, and employers
- How to deal effectively with fifteen different difficult types of employees
In this professional engineering CEU course, you need to review the document titled “Supervising Difficult People”.
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