How to Manage Difficult People (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780716023982)

This book shows you how to identify and understand awkward and challenging behaviours in others, and how to manage them.

Dealing with difficult people - from awkward customers at work to irritating neighbours at home - is a challenge many people face on a day-to-day basis.

This book will show you how to:

- Defuse and deal with difficult customers, both on the phone and face to face;

- Manage problems with colleagues in the workplace, including a manipulative boss;

- Handle difficult day-to-day interactions with any people we come into contact anywhere;

- Identify and manage behaviours which can turn a person into a 'problem'; Improve necessary listening and communication skills;

- Increase self-confidence and develop rapport-building skills.

This book contains some proven techniques for managing yourself as well as managing difficult people. If you gain a better understanding of yourself, build your confidence and use these techniques, then you'll make your life a whole lot easier.