How to Manage Difficult People: Proven Strategies for Dealing with Challenging

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 with
- 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 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 own life a whole lot easier.

Alan Fairweather worked in sales and customer service and did the job of a manager for 15 successful years. He is very much aware that, in our job and our personal life, we can often face apparently rude, impatient and aggressive people. He now spends his time running seminars and workshops, developing skills on how to handle problem people and situations and come out of it with increased confidence and improved results.