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Coping with Difficult People: The Proven-Effective Battle Plan That Has Helped Millions Deal with the Troublemakers in Their Lives at Home and at Work

Coping With Difficult People In Business And In Life
By Dr. Robert Bramsom

This is a classic work on how to deal with difficult people

Overview of the contents

Bosses, friends, family members, they’ve made your life hell — until now! Based on fourteen years of research and observation, Dr. Robert Bramson’s proven-effective techniques are guaranteed to help you right the balance and take charge of your life.

Learn how to:

Stand up to anyone — without fighting.

Blunt a sniper’s attack.

Get a clam to talk.

Cut off a Sherman tank at the pass.

Manage bulldozers.

Get stallers off the dime.

Move a complainer into a problem-solving mode.

Learn the six basic steps that allow you to cope with just about anyone. Reclaim the power the rightfully belongs to you.

Coping With Difficult People In Business And In Life

Some Reviews

Shalom Freedman “Shalom Freedman” (Jerusalem,Israel) -

Bramson wisely uses the word ‘coping’. That is he is not suggesting that one can really overcome or transform difficult people. He is speaking primarily about difficult people in the working place. The domineering aggressive abusive type should according to Bramson not be reacted to with anger and rage. One should also refused to be intimidated, and instead asset one’s own views. The sniper who by little satirical remarks, and efforts at humor tries to hurt and diminish should be confronted and questioned as to his true intentions. The complainer should be opposed with positive ideas on the same project that the complainer is negative about. The know-it-alls, the silent- negative types, the indecisive also can in some way countered and dealt with.
Above all the aim must be to prevent these negative types from dominating one’s own mindscape and action.
All of us confront in one way or another difficult people. And each of us is perhaps in a certain way a difficult person himself. This book is addressing a subject we all in some way know, and have connection with.
One other point. I have known and loved in my life very very difficult people perhaps beyond in a way described in this book.The fact is it is often what is difficult in them which somehow more strongly binds them to us.
This is a complicated subject about which there are worlds to be said.

You need this book wherever you are; Even alone on an island, August 6, - See all my reviews

Coping with Difficult People is an amazingly useful book. Difficult people are all around you, even when you’re alone: Most people don’t realise just how difficult and unconstructive they can be! This book gives helps you identify difficult behaviour, and how to get around it.

WHAT THIS AUDIO BOOK GIVES YOU

Difficult behaviour is not all that difficult to identify. That is, unless you’re in the middle of a confrontation and you’re either too annoyed or intimidated or distracted to realise what’s taking place. This book won’t turn you into a psychologist, but it will teach you how to identify difficult, destructive, problematic behaviour in people, and how to cope with it.

This book is about coping. You can’t always convince someone, and when someone’s determinsed to make life difficult for you you can’t always win. But you can try to push ahead, keep your cool, remain focused and constructive and pleasant and not be trampled on. If you’re experiencing a difficult time because of co-workers or friends or family members, having read this book, your life will not become all of a sudden easier and simpler and nicer. Difficult people will continue to make your life difficult. But if you follow the suggestions in the book you should be able to neutralise most of the difficult behaviour to the point where you can get things done.

Coping With Difficult People In Business And In Life

WHY DOES IT WORKS WITH OTHERS

This audio book will help you because it’s recipe oriented, and if you become adept at it, you will be able to use its suggestions under pressure — the elements of surprise or helplessness in the difficult behaviour will be missed on you. Key phrases, key words, body language are used to identify a type of difficult behaviour/person. Then a basic approach is tailored around the type of difficult person you’re dealing with, though you will need to adapt the material in the book to your particular environment, situation and style. The better you anticipate an encounter with a difficult person and plan for it, the less of a surprise will that person enjoy, the less a sense of inevitability and helplessness will he be able to instill in you. In that sense, this book is the equivalent to a book on Chess openings. It’s very effective.

WHY DOES IT WORKS WITH YOURSELF

Almost everybody is a difficult person sometimes. This audio book will help you identify patterns of difficult behaviour in yourself, and will give you some rudimentry insight into why you’re behaving that way. Becoming conscious of when you exhibit difficult, uncooperative, destructive behaviour — with what people, in what situations, etc, is a first step to curbing these tendencies within yourself.
Mayer Goldberg

An excellent and practical manual on how to handle anyone.,
By Michelle Williams “lovetoread” (San Diego, CA) - found this book (audiotape)to be an excellent and very practical manual on how to handle both difficult people in everyday situations as well as everyday people in difficult situations. What is really good about this audio book is that it gives the exact sentences, words, and phrases to use in various situations. It provides an actual script for what needs to be said when coping with difficult people.

The real difficult person is inside you,
By Haseeb (Tempe, AZ United States)
Most people have difficulty in dealing with certain personality types. An inability to deal effectively with others can cause very serious problems in morale, job performance and self esteem. It has been said that most problems related to losing one’s job has more to do with human relations than with job performance per se. As a person who has been fired many times, I can attest to that statement. I’ve seen incompetent people keep their jobs, but I’ve seen several people (myself included) lose their jobs over inter-personal conflicts which seem silly in comparison. The more one is able to resolve and or avoid conflicts, the more successful they will be in the long run.

This audio book divides difficult people into seven different types namely “hostile-aggressives”, “complainers”, “silent and unreasponsives”, “super-agreeables”, “negativists”, “know-it-all experts” and “indecisives”. Each type of behavior is explained and real-world examples of each in action are given. The forte of the book is how it explains how to cope effectively with each type. In my dealings with others, I’ve found that the coping advice given is right on target. Chances are, any type of difficult person will fit into one of the aforementioned categories. If not, they will be a variation or a combination of two or more of them. The coping methods given in the book are not always easy to implement because they require a lot of practice and may require a great deal of courage. This isn’t a book to just read once, the methods must be studied and practiced if you wish to benefit from it.

One of the most interesting things I’ve discovered when listening to this book is that I have fit into some of the categories of difficult people at times. The more effectively I can learn about and fight my own difficult behavior, the easier it will be for me to deal with others who possess the same traits. Regardless of how much one knows about dealing with difficult people, it can still be a battle to implement the methods given in this book. Therefore, coping with difficult people is not about using some simple trick, it’s all about confronting the difficult person within each of us.

Coping With Difficult People In Business And In Life

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