Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Dif..., Renee Evenson
Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Dif..., Renee Evenson
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Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People
Over 325 Ready-to-Use Words and Phrases for Working with Challenging Personalities

Author: Renee Evenson

Narrator: Jill Blackwood

Unabridged: 6 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: AMACOM

Published: 12/21/2021


Synopsis

How to Manage Work Relationships in a Constructive Way that Leads to Success.Learning how to maintain strong, harmonious work relationships is essential. Unfortunately, at some point in your career, you'll have to work with people whose personalities or habits make every interaction with them a trial.Communications expert Renee Evenson has written the definitive phrasebook on how to confront the situations that can arise when dealing with difficult personalities and bring about a positive outcome. Powerful Phrases for Dealing with Difficult People is packed with practical and easy-to-use tactics such as:325 powerful phrases to communicate effectively, as well as powerful actions to take in support of those phrases.30 common personality traits, behaviors, and workplace scenarios along with the phrases that work best with each.Nonverbal communication actions to back up your words.Sample dialogues that demonstrate how phrasing improves interactions.A five-step process for moving from conflict to resolution."Why This Works" sections that provide detailed explanations. Often, an employee who can interact well with others and feels comfortable handling conflict will be promoted over an employee who possesses greater job or technical knowledge. From egotistical bosses to meeting monopolizers, you'll learn how to develop the skills to handle any type of conflict with anyone.

About Renee Evenson

REN'E EVENSON is a small-business consultant specializing in workplace communication and conflict resolution strategies. She is the author of several books, including Powerful Phrases for Effective Customer Service and Customer Service Training 101.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Annie on August 07, 2021

There are some good scripts on how to have a conversation with difficult people - identify the problem, state it in terms of how it affected you (e.g., when I was giving my presentation and you interrupted, it threw me off), acknowledge how the other person may feel (e.g., I know you had some concer......more

Goodreads review by MJ on July 21, 2019

This really is a basic book about conflict resolution in the workplace. The promised 325+ words and phrases were not what I was expecting. Positive: Grouping the phrases into types: "Word of understanding," "words of compromise," etc. could be helpful as a reminder to try to include them all as nece......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on August 03, 2014

Overall this is a decent book to give you a handle on how to deal with people in a way thats closure to productive. Having worked in a variety of companies, situations and for different managers, I gained value from most sections in this book. Some of the phrases that are used may seem somewhat sill......more