Course Description
Mastering Workplace Dynamics: Navigating Complex Personalities with Poise
The modern workplace can be a melting pot of personalities, some harmonious and others challenging. Encountering difficult or toxic individuals is an unfortunate reality for many professionals. Such interactions can take a toll, affecting mental well-being, job performance, and overall satisfaction. When the challenging individual occupies the office next door or, even more dauntingly, is in a position of authority over you, the pressure intensifies. However, with the right knowledge and tools, one can navigate these treacherous waters with confidence and skill.
Understanding, confronting, and effectively managing difficult personalities is not just about conflict resolution—it’s about preserving your peace, ensuring your rights, and maintaining a productive work environment. Our comprehensive course offers guidance on mastering these very aspects, equipping you to handle complex workplace dynamics.
Course Highlights:
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Recognizing Difficult Personalities: Understand and categorize various challenging behaviors you might encounter, from the overtly aggressive to the subtly undermining.
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Your Rights in the Workplace: A foundational overview of your rights as an employee. This segment will empower you to distinguish between acceptable workplace behavior and what crosses the line.
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Stress Management: Techniques to handle on-the-job pressures and maintain a balanced mental state, ensuring that external negativity doesn't erode your inner peace.
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Establishing Boundaries: Learn to assertively define your personal and professional boundaries, ensuring mutual respect between you and your colleagues.
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Effective Collaboration: Delve into methods that promote harmonious team dynamics, even when working with challenging personalities.
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Conflict Resolution: Acquire actionable strategies to resolve disputes and misunderstandings before they escalate, preserving workplace morale.
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Decoding Body Language: Enhance your ability to read non-verbal cues, a skill invaluable in gauging unspoken intentions and sentiments.
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Handling Aggression: Strategies and tools to defuse aggressive behavior and ensure your safety and dignity.
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Dealing with Critics and Power Dynamics: Equip yourself with techniques to manage those who constantly criticize or display overt power-seeking tendencies.
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Managing the Unproductive: Addressing the “slackers” and those who drain team energy, ensuring consistent productivity.
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Avoiding Office Gossip: Navigate away from unhealthy workplace gossip and its repercussions, promoting a culture of positivity.
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Gender Dynamics in the Workplace: Understanding the nuances of gender interactions and ensuring an environment of equality and respect.
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Confronting Prejudice: Tactics and approaches to handle instances of prejudice, ensuring that biases, in any form, are addressed and eradicated.
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Standing up to Authoritative Figures: Courageously and respectfully asserting yourself when confronted with a bullying boss or superior.
Course Impact:
Engaging with this course will not just impart knowledge, but it will empower you. You'll be better positioned to foster healthy interactions, confront issues with tact and confidence, and ensure that your work environment remains positive and productive. You don’t have to be a silent sufferer of negative workplace dynamics. Equip yourself with the skills to champion not just for your rights, but also for a healthier, happier workplace for all.
In today’s ever-evolving workplace, the ability to handle complex personalities and situations is not just a skill, but a necessity. Register today and invest in not just your professional growth, but also your peace of mind. Let this course be your comprehensive guide to mastering the intricate dance of workplace dynamics.
- Completely Online
- Self-Paced
- Printable Lessons
- Full HD Video
- 6 Months to Complete
- 24/7 Availability
- Start Anytime
- PC & Mac Compatible
- Android & iOS Friendly
- Accredited CEUs
Learning Outcomes
- Describe basic conflict resolution processes.
- Evaluate body language.
- Identify bullies.
- Recognize power struggles.
- Describe and identify slackers and energy vampires.
- Recognize office gossip and its effects on the workplace.
- Recognize and reconcile problematic personalities.
- Describe methods for dealing with a bully as a boss.
- Describe benefits of successful collaboration.
- Demonstrate mastery of lesson content at levels of 70% or higher.
Assessment Guide
Assessment | Points |
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An Introduction | 1 points |
Lesson 1: Course Introduction | 9 points |
Lesson 2: Basic Conflict Resolution | 10 points |
Lesson 3: Understanding Body Language | 11 points |
Lesson 4: Bullies | 12 points |
Lesson 5: Power Struggles: Handling Critics, Rivals and Power Freaks With Panache | 11 points |
Lesson 6: Slackers and Energy Vampires | 12 points |
Lesson 7: Gossip Girls (and Guys) | 12 points |
Lesson 8: Problematic Personalities | 12 points |
Lesson 9: When Men and Women Collide: Gender Differences In The Workplace | 9 points |
Lesson 10: When The Bully Is Your Boss | 10 points |
Lesson 11: Successful Collaboration | 10 points |
The Final Exam | 54 points |