Dealing with Difficult People Online Training Course
Course Topics: 7
Estimated Time Needed: 8.27 hour(s)
Audience: This training course is for anyone who is interested in establishing better working relationships with difficult peers, supervisors, or subordinates.
Course Description: This online course presents strategies for handling interpersonal tension in the workplace. In each course, learners will gain insight into analyzing situations, determining the best courses of action, and resolving problems. Scenarios and examples include working with difficult people in any organizational situation - supervisors, peers, and subordinates.
Course Tutorials Include:
Dealing with Difficult People: 1 Managing Against the Odds
Description
This course introduces the major issues involved in dealing with difficult employees. It provides a three-step process to help transcend preconceptions about difficult people and avoid missteps in managing them.
Objectives
Dealing with Difficult People: 2 Consideration
Description
After taking this course, the learner will be able to identify key causes of inconsiderate behavior in the workplace and outline polite, effective strategies for resolving the problems with the other people who are involved. Situations covered in this course include workspace issues such as noise, odors, and misuse of shared spaces, as well as interpersonal issues of respect and courtesy.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving inconsiderate behavior
- Qualify your acceptance of a difficult behavior after weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that inconsiderate behavior causes
Dealing with Difficult People: 3 Attitude
Description
This course provides an overview of problems that arise from attitude issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of attitude problems in the workplace and outline polite, effective strategies for resolving them.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving an attitude problem
- Qualify the attitude problem by weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that attitude issues cause
Dealing with Difficult People: 4 Trust
Description
This course provides an overview of problems that arise from trust issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of trust problems in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving a trust problem
- Qualify the trust problem by weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that trust issues cause
Dealing with Difficult People: 5 Power
Description
This course provides an overview of problems that arise from power issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of power struggles in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving a power issue
- Qualify the power problem by weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that power struggles cause
Dealing with Difficult People: 6 Communication
Description
This course provides an overview of problems that arise from communication problems in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of communication problems in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving a communication problem
- Qualify the communication problem by weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that miscommunications cause
Dealing with Difficult People: 7 Responsibility
Description
This course provides an overview of problems that arise from responsibility issues in the workplace. After taking this course, you will be able to identify key causes of irresponsible behavior in the workplace and outline thoughtful, effective strategies for resolving them.
Objectives
- Clarify a situation involving a responsibility problem
- Qualify the responsibility problem by weighing the options and mitigating factors involved
- Modify the situation to resolve the problems that irresponsible behavior causes
Features
- Flash and audio provide animated, interactive Lesson Introductions, Activities, and Simulations.
- Flash scenarios use real world situations to illustrate course concepts.
- Streaming video scenarios illustrate real world issues and solutions discussed in the course.
- Audio accompanies each lesson page throughout the course.
- Decision Point activities allow learners to work toward an outcome in an interactive environment.
- Simulations teach learners to perform specific tasks in applications through guided, multi-step exercises.
- Activities allow learners to apply course concepts in an interactive questioning environment.
- Exercises allow learners to practice in the actual application being studied.
- A Course Topics list contains active hyperlinks, permitting quick access to specific topics.
- Find-A-Word allows learners to look up an unfamiliar term in the Glossary, on the Web, or in a dictionary. In addition, it lets them find other occurrences of the term in the same course.
- Search text enables learners to rapidly search all text within a course to easily retrieve information required.
- Courses challenge the learner with a variety of question formats, including multi-step simulations, true/false, multiple choice, and fill-in-the-blank.
- A skill assessment generates a customized learning path based on the results of a pre-test.
- A glossary provides a reference for definitions of unfamiliar terms.
- Bookmarking tracks the learner's progress in a course.