How to Deal With Difficult Situations

In this short power skill course, you'll find out how to deal with difficult situations so that in the future, you'll be able to resolve them swiftly and effectively. Workplace conflict can be a useful tool for growth and change, but only if it's managed well. This training course has been created in collaboration with our subject matter expert, Eleanor Snare, emotional literacy specialist and life coach.

Course Overview

Format

Introductory Course
8-12 minutes
Online Study
Self-Printed Certificate

Accreditation

Virtual College Certified

Course description

Find out how to deal with difficult situations and workplace conflicts.

What is covered in this Dealing with Difficult Situations course?

Our online Dealing with Difficult Situations training course is broken down into the following sections and can be completed at your own pace. The course includes:

Module	What it includes
How do you Feel About it?	In this section, we discuss how when we're part of or witness a difficult situation at work, it can trigger a strong physical and emotional response within us. We go through how simply stepping away can be of great benefit to the situation. This section contains a reflection activity where we ask you to think back to a recent difficult situation you experienced or witnessed at work and ask what were some of the physical sensations you felt during or after the event.
What do you Want to do About it?	Once you've learnt about how you feel about the difficult situation, we look at taking action and what your next steps should be. We discuss how it is likely your workplace has specific processes in place for dealing with certain difficult situations, and it's a good idea to use those if you need to. This section also contains a case study and a quiz to help further your knowledge.
Communicating your Perspective	Here, we learn that even if we don't want a difficult situation to repeat itself at work, it can be really challenging to actually talk about your perspective of it. We give you 4 very helpful tips in dealing with these situations and how to clarify your communication. We discuss building confidence in conversation and give you a conversational cheat sheet quiz.
Extension Task	By this section, you'll have covered a lot of material. To really get to grips with what it all means for your workplace, you can use the reflection task to help you. Based on what you have discovered during this short course, we ask how might you change some of your behaviours around difficult situations in the future.

Why take this Dealing with Difficult Situations course?

In this course, you'll find out how to deal with difficult situations so that in the future, you'll be able to resolve them swiftly and effectively. Workplace conflict can be a useful tool for growth and change, but only if it's managed well. By taking part in this course, you'll learn how to analyse your emotions and practise describing them with words. You'll learn how to get the best outcome out of a difficult conversation by focusing on facts and observed behaviours. This power skill can be extremely beneficial in your job role.

Dealing with Difficult Situations Course Duration

This Dealing with Difficult Situations course should take 8-12 minutes to complete, but e-learning is self-paced, so it depends entirely on your individual learning speed and how quickly you absorb the study material.

Certification

After completing this Dealing with Difficult Situations course, you will be able to download and print a Virtual College certificate for your records.

Entry requirements

There are no specific entry requirements for this Dealing with Difficult Situations course.

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