Handling Difficult Situations

This course provides you with an extremely insightful and practical guide on how to manage yourself and the difficult people and situations that you encounter in your workplace. It will provide you with tips and techniques to enable you to develop the confidence to be proactive and not reactive when challenged by people and circumstances.

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It's more than just a course.

This is a learning journey, suitable for individuals and teams.

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Excite

On-demand digital learning playlist

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Engage

Live session delivered virtually or in-person

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Embed

Digital learning playlists | Coaching session (optional)

Training Course

For our learning journeys we use our proven excite, engage, embed method to ensure the learning experience is engaging and the learning is sustained. The full details of the programme are shown below.

Course Code: OV-HDP

  • This is available for individuals, groups and teams

  • half-day live session delivered virtually or in-person | 6-8 hrs on-demand learning | 30-minute coaching session (optional extra for teams)

  • Part of our Core Library

This course provides you with an extremely insightful and practical guide on how to manage yourself and the difficult people and situations that you encounter in your workplace. It will provide you with tips and techniques to enable you to develop the confidence to be proactive and not reactive when challenged by people and circumstances.
You will learn how to understand other people‘s behaviour and how to respond appropriately. You will gain practical guidance to apply to your own situations and you will leave the course with the skills and the confidence to apply the appropriate techniques to your day-to-day activities.

Suitable for anyone looking to develop their skills and confidence when dealing with difficult people and situations at work.

By the end of this course you will be able to:

  • Forge more positive working relationships with individuals you find difficult
  • Separate people from their behaviour and avoid making inaccurate assumptions
  • Recognise and respond to non-assertive behaviours and crossed transactions
  • Adopt a confident, professional and appropriate approach to difficult situations
  • Give constructive and courageous feedback to a ‘difficult‘ individual
  • Receive critical feedback gracefully
  • Use strong communication skills to improve interactions and create mutual understanding
  • Plan your personal strategy for dealing with difficult situations
  • Challenging your assumptions and focusing on observed behaviour
  • Breaking the Belief-Behaviour cycle
  • Identifying types of behaviour and their impact on self and others
  • Choosing an assertive response in a difficult situation
  • Using practical tools to build your assertiveness toolkit
  • Communicating effectively through active listening and asking great questions
  • Creating congruence of visual, verbal and vocal communication elements
  • Becoming aware of filters and how they can distort our experiences
  • Applying a simple model to incorporate the key elements of effective feedback
  • How to receive critical feedback with grace and purpose

For groups & teams

Live session delivered virtually or in-person. Up to 15 people per programme.

From £3000 (+VAT)

Bring in-house

For individuals

Upcoming dates (select date for price info)

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

£ 625.00 (+ VAT)

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Build a customised programme

Use our building blocks approach to create a customised programme to suit your specific needs and context, at the pace you need. 
Talk to us about what you want to achieve.

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Step 1

Choose the core blocks you want (from our content library)

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Step 2

Consider what blocks you want to customise (to make it your own)

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Step 3

Review any additional technology and support services we can help you with (to bring the truly bring the learning experience to life)

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Step 4

We’ll create the optimum journey for your learners

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The building blocks menu of options

To help achieve the pace and agility you need, we encourage you to make use of what we already have (our core library) and make it your own. There’s no need to ‘recreate the wheel’ - build from what we have ‘ready to go’ and then customise what you need to.

Choose from across our range of 100+ core topic areas.

Online self-study:
  • Fluidbooks
  • Infographics (standard and HTML)
  • Thrive in Five
  • Videos/animations
  • Quizzes & assessments
  • Podcasts
  • Digital flip cards
  • HTML microsites
  • Digital adventures
  • Applying what you have learned - action learning prompts/exercises
  • All assets under a topic/collection
Live expert-led:
  • Pre-built team experience (learning journey)
  • Live workshops - virtual or in-person training (1 x half-day live session in a day; 2 x half-day live session in a day)
  • Bitesize (1 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 2 x 90-min bite-size session in a day; 3 x 90-min bite-size session in a day)
  • Run-it-yourself
  • Coaching – per hour (Follow-up; Learning programme; Transitioning together; Team effectiveness; Career coaching; Leadership & executive; Skills performance coaching)
  • Group facilitation sessions (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day
  • Leadership lab session (1 x 3hr in a day; 2 x 3hr in a day)
  • Virtual delivery platform licence
Personalisation for live events:
  • Add your logo
  • Tailored
  • Branded
  • Fully customised
Bespoke content creation:
  • Fluidbooks
  • Infographics (standard and HTML)
  • Thrive in Five
  • Videos/animations
  • Quizzes & assessments
  • Podcasts with bespoke or your content
  • Digital flip cards
  • HTML microsites
  • Digital adventures
  • Digital badges/certificates
  • Live expert-led bite-size or workshop session
Bespoke printed communication/learning assets:
  • Handouts
  • Z-cards
  • Zappar AR for Z-card
  • Action learning prompts/exercises
  • Bespoke Hub annual subscription fee (per user)
  • Hub implementation
  • Subscription (open) hub
  • Booker portal
  • Delivery – Virtual or in-person facilitator; virtual producer
  • Faculty management
  • Delegate management
  • Instructional design
  • Specialist instructional design
  • Learning journey curation
  • Logistics support
  • Project management
  • Customer success management
  • Branding & creative communication
  • Graphic design
  • Translations services
  • Proofing/QA
  • Data insights & engagement
  • Consultancy
  • Supplier management
  • Managed Learning Services
The building blocks menu of options

Our approach

Successful learning programmes don’t just happen by accident: Our 4E learning journey model ensures maximum transformational power (and it’s informed by decades of adult learning best practices and proven real-life hybrid learning effectiveness).

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