Difficult personalities in a team are an obstacle to teamwork. Managers must learn to channel them. This course will enable you to perfect your communication skills and choose the best relational posture to re-establish dialogue for effective collaboration.
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Difficult personalities in a team are an obstacle to teamwork. Managers must learn to channel them. This course will enable you to perfect your communication skills and choose the best relational posture to re-establish dialogue for effective collaboration.
At the end of the training, the participant will be able to:
Building self-esteem
Adapt your communication to your audience
Conducting refocusing interviews
Asserting yourself with difficult colleagues
Managing conflict situations
Intended audience
Team managers.
Prerequisites
No special knowledge required.
Practical details
Hands-on work
Individual and group role-playing and debriefing, individual reflection on strengths and potential.
Course schedule
1
Understanding why someone becomes difficult
Identify behaviors.
Impact on labor relations.
Assertiveness: a winning technique?
Hands-on work
Collective exchange.
2
Building self-esteem and assertiveness
Identify the three resources needed for self-esteem and assertiveness.
Identify strengths and areas for development.
Understand your own frame of reference.
Distinguish between the six logical levels.
Hands-on work
Interview with an employee using the three levels of communication. Work in pairs with feedback.
3
Build a state of invulnerability and [[non-insulnerability]".
Avoid hasty judgments, criticism, blame and insults.
Positivize: use criticism constructively.
Avoid a defensive posture: stop personalizing attacks or criticisms.
Build and anchor a state of invulnerability.
Hands-on work
Resist the verbal and aggressive onslaught of your interlocutor.
4
Calibrate your communication to your audience
Different types of difficult personalities.
Adapt your level of communication.
Oppressor/oppressed relationship.
Better manage stress.
Hands-on work
Interview scenarios to adjust your communication style and debriefing.
5
Managing difficult employees
Action levers: desynchronization, questioning relevance, humor and jokes, taking into account...
Distinguish their states of stress and how to defuse or divert them?
Positioning yourself and creating a healthy work environment.
Hands-on work
Motivational interview exercises and debriefing.
6
Conducting refocusing interviews
The interview with facts and without facts.
Saying what's wrong without demotivating.
Give feedback during the interview.
Involve the employee in the search for a solution.
Hands-on work
Interview preparation and simulation with filmed role-playing.
7
Overcoming conflict situations
Identify root causes.
Understand the sources of conflict, position yourself and communicate accordingly.
Hands-on work
Role-playing relational conflicts to find your managerial posture.
Customer reviews
4,6 / 5
Customer reviews are based on end-of-course evaluations. The score is calculated from all evaluations within the past year. Only reviews with a textual comment are displayed.
MATTHIEU F.
17/09/26
5 / 5
Organise role-play activities based on scenarios involving the participants
DELPHINE V.
17/09/26
5 / 5
Several practical examples to put into practice
FLORA B.
17/09/26
5 / 5
Very good, comprehensive and useful support
SANDRINE D.
17/09/26
4 / 5
A great deal of input
JULIEN L.
17/09/26
5 / 5
Elisabeth, in her kindness, gave me the tools I needed to move forward, and was able to illustrate situations using words and real-life examples.
GAEL T.
17/09/26
5 / 5
A really interesting training course. A trainer who made me look forward to getting back to my team. I’d been taking a step back from my role as a manager, but now I’m feeling re-energised.
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17/09/26
5 / 5
I appreciated the quality of the discussions and the input. The combination with the role-play exercises worked well. The examples of situations, illustrated with specific questions to ask, helped me to fully understand the cases presented.
CORINE B.
09/07/26
5 / 5
A very comprehensive training course which enabled me to reflect on various aspects of managing difficult people. Thank you to Bruno for his excellent work and for listening!
HUBERT O.
09/07/26
5 / 5
Excellent teaching methods using real-life examples
ROUGER ELODIE L.
09/07/26
5 / 5
The content is excellent, but the slides are rather dense and could do with some visuals. That said, everything is explained very clearly during the session. It might be worth having the slides available on the day of the training so that we can make notes on them, otherwise
DJENEBA K.
21/05/26
5 / 5
I’m leaving this session feeling confident, as the course was delivered really well with the practical examples. Thank you very much :)
VALÉRIE P.
08/12/25
5 / 5
Very interesting course with lots of sharing of experience and dynamism in the group.
JÉRÔME J.
08/12/25
5 / 5
Very interesting, helps you to step back and identify different situations.
NICOLAS S.
08/12/25
5 / 5
The content was very interesting, and the instructor was excellent and a great listener. The alternation between theory and practice is balanced and enriching. I highly recommend this course. Can't wait to put it into practice!
AURÉLIEN C.
08/12/25
4 / 5
Very good
MATHIEU R.
08/12/25
4 / 5
The training was well-suited to managing difficult personalities, and the levers and feedback were very interesting.
MOHAMMED N.
01/12/25
5 / 5
Constructive and well delivered, with listening skills, kindness and precise examples for each participant's case.
PICARD REYNALD B.
01/12/25
5 / 5
Highly adaptable trainer
RENAUD H.
01/12/25
4 / 5
need to specify that we must avoid judging the other. this prevents us from using real examples to avoid unnecessary comments
NICOLAS T.
01/12/25
5 / 5
Good balance between theory and practiceGood interaction with the trainer.
MARIE CAROLINE D.
01/12/25
5 / 5
A good group with lots of exchanges and a trainer who listens.
EMELINE B.
01/12/25
5 / 5
Interesting mix of real-life situations and educational content
VIRGINIE L.
01/12/25
5 / 5
Very interesting and helps you take a step back from personal situations.
TRAINER QUALIFICATIONS
The experts leading the training are specialists in the covered subjects. They have been approved by our instructional teams for both their professional knowledge and their teaching ability, for each course they teach. They have at least five to ten years of experience in their field and hold (or have held) decision-making positions in companies.
ASSESSMENT TERMS
The trainer evaluates each participant’s academic progress throughout the training using multiple choice, scenarios, hands-on work and more.
Participants also complete a placement test before and after the course to measure the skills they’ve developed.
TEACHING AIDS AND TECHNICAL RESOURCES • The main teaching aids and instructional methods used in the training are audiovisual aids, documentation and course material, hands-on application exercises and corrected exercises for practical training courses, case studies and coverage of real cases for training seminars.
• At the end of each course or seminar, ORSYS provides participants with a course evaluation questionnaire that is analysed by our instructional teams.
• A check-in sheet for each half-day of attendance is provided at the end of the training, along with a course completion certificate if the trainee attended the entire session.
TERMS AND DEADLINES
Registration must be completed 24 hours before the start of the training.
ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Do you need special accessibility accommodations? Contact Mrs. Fosse, Disability Manager, at psh-accueil@orsys.fr to review your request and its feasibility.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.
This programme is an original creation, developed by the teaching teams at ORSYS Formation. Any reproduction, representation, adaptation or use, in whole or in part, without the prior written authorisation of ORSYS, is strictly prohibited. ORSYS reserves the right to take any action necessary to protect its intellectual property rights.