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Working with Difficult People

Handling the Ten Types of Problem People without Losing Your Mind
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Working with Difficult People by Muriel Solomon and Amy Cooper Hakim is a practical guide designed to help you navigate and manage challenging interactions in the workplace. It offers strategic advice on handling various personality types, improving communication, and resolving conflicts effectively. The book provides tools for enhancing workplace relationships, ultimately fostering a more harmonious and productive environment.
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Working with Difficult People

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Working with Difficult People is a revised edition of the classic guide on how to best resolve conflict in today's technologically advanced workplace.

Your work day is filled with them—people who frustrate, impede, manoeuvre, undermine, plot, connive, and whine. This indispensable guide details specific techniques for handling all of them, with easy-to-follow scenarios for every situation.

Updated and revised to reflect modern issues including technology, generation gaps, and language barriers, this guide describes 10 kinds of culprits, from tyrants and bullies (regular and cyber) to the pushy and presumptuous to connivers and camouflagers. It offers helpful strategies and phrases for diffusing workplace tensions and effectively resolving conflicts.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780143111870

Publisher: J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 December 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: J.P.Tarcher,U.S./Perigee Bks.,U.S.

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 352

About the Author

AMY COOPER HAKIM, PhD, is the founder of The Cooper Strategic Group, a management consulting firm that specializes in training and development, targeted hiring, and survey design and analysis. As an Industrial/Organizational psychology practitioner she provides solutions to make businesses run smoothly and help employers find, maintain, and effectively utilize top-notch employees. MURIEL SOLOMON worked in communications for over 40 years. She taught her "Strategic Talking" method to companies throughout the United States, and wrote a syndicated column for the Miami Herald for many years.

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