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Dealing with Difficult People Roy Lilley

Dealing with Difficult People By Roy Lilley

Dealing with Difficult People by Roy Lilley


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Summary

Packed with tips, hints and warnings of potential hazards, this book is suitable for managers or anyone who has deal with difficult colleagues or the public.

Dealing with Difficult People Summary

Dealing with Difficult People by Roy Lilley

Praise and Reviews It is the essential guide to coping with people problems. Packed with hints, tips and warning of potential hazards. OS Magazine `Packed with tips, hints and warning of potential hazards, Dealing with Difficult People is suitable for managers and professionals or indeed anyone who has to deal with difficult people in general` CAMBRIDGE EVENING NEWS, December 2001 Difficult people can make life impossible. The workplace is inhabited by a wide variety of people and it can sometimes be difficult to get on with them as well as get on with your work. However, by understanding difficult people and the things they do, problematic situations and awkward issues can be resolved. Dealing with Difficult People will help you do just that, it looks at individual behaviour, what drives it and how to cope with it. Written in a practical and accessible style, it is the essential guide to coping with people problems. Roy Lilley covers every angle including: recognising the seven difficult types of people; what conflict is and how to handle it; handling aggressive people; motivating lazy colleagues; dealing with difficult customers; handling complaints. Packed with tips, hints and warnings of potential hazards, this book is suitable for managers or anyone who has deal with difficult colleagues or the public. It will help you to enjoy difficult people, unlock them, influence them and improve their performance.

Dealing with Difficult People Reviews

Suitable for anyone who has to deal with difficult colleagues or the public. It will help you to enjoy difficult people: unlock them, influence them and improve their performance. Business Executive, April 2005

About Roy Lilley

Roy Lilley Roy Lilley is a well-known journalist who writes a regular column in Healthcare Today. He is Chairman of the Homewood NHS Trust, and along with Chief Executive (Eve Richardson), they merged the Trust with their neighbouring Community Trust, Weybourne, to create Bournewood NHS Trust.

Table of Contents

Part 1 A short course in human relations: Difficult, who me? Part 2 A quick guide to the seven classically difficult types - or how to sound like an Expert in the time it takes to drink a cup of coffee: Recognise anyone?; First the diagnosis. Part 3 A fast-track guide to conflict and how to handle it: What conflict is. Part 4 Dealing with bosses who drive you barmy: Mr Angry; Never let them see you sweat. Part 5 Colleagues to throttle: Competition crazy; Rivals, antagonists and getting personal; It's always the quiet ones. Part 6 Staff to strangle: Independent or stubborn?; When the big hand gets to twelve; Good bosses don't pry - but they should try; Waving or drowning; Finding out how good a boss you've been; Seriously difficult members of staff. Part 7 Massaging the egoist: If the difficulty is an egomaniac boss; If the difficulty is an egoist working for you; The egomaniac colleague; Knocking the know-all. Part 8 Handling aggressive people without getting thumped on the nose; If an aggressive manager is trying to dump on your ideas; If you're stuck with a project that will never fly; If you're being stabbed in the back. Part 9 Putting a bomb under the lazy ones; Clock-watchers, rule-bookers and not invented here; If you are held back by a idle colleague; a boss who loiters; how you eat an elephant; The criminally lazy. Part 10 Beating the bullies at their own game: The decibel dictator; When you can't do anything right; When all else fails; The firework colleague. Part 11 Moaners, groaners and critics: Cold water torture; Try building alliances, coalitions and connections; Words you don't want to hear When critics turn the gun on themselves. Part 12 Perfectionists can be a pain; What turns on a perfectionist; Rules is rules; The perfectionist boss. Part 13 Manipulating the manipulators: If you're being lined up to take the blame; Let's do a deal; If you're easily flattered; If you're flattered by your staff. Part 14 Shifting the stubborn: When the customer knows best. Part 15 Morale, attitude and how was it for you?: If you're sick of the sick; Everyone having a sickie; Cliques, circles and witches' covens. (Part contents.)

Additional information

GOR001048134
9780749436919
0749436913
Dealing with Difficult People by Roy Lilley
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Kogan Page Ltd
20011108
160
N/A
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