Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager (Udemy.com)

Be happy and successful at work with practical solutions for handling a bad boss or difficult manager

( 175 Reviews )

Created by: Chris Croft

Produced in 2021

What you will learn

Take back control over what your work week feels like - banish fear or unhappiness
Confront your boss in an effective, non-scary and professional manner to get win-win results
Create a positive work environment with a supportive and helpful manager
Overcome a feeling of helplessness that your boss is "terrible" or "evil" - it's not impossible
Look forward to coming in to work each day

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Course Description

Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult or Toxic ManagerBe happy and successful at work with practical solutions for handling a bad boss or difficult manager

Having a bad boss or difficult manager can ruin not only your 9-5 weekdays but also create a toxic environment for your personal life too. It's not surprising that it's impossible to switch frombeing stressed or unhappy at work to joyfully spending the weekend reading on the beach.
A difficult boss can haunt you with stress and unhappiness throughout your week. Regardless of your age or experience at any stage of your career a boss can be a huge problem for your long termprogress and dailysatisfaction... and that's what this course is designed to cure.
If you are living with a challenging boss or manager andinstead want tocreate an environment which is happy, productive and respectful, this courseis perfect for you. It is possible, and there is hope!
In this course you'll learn practical techniques to deal with a bad boss and overcome a toxic work environment. Each lecture is tailored to a different management issue and will give you precise words to say, a range of practicalnon-confrontational techniques, anddetailed tips on how you solve the problem. Most bad bosses are in fact not pure evil (although a couple are!) - often they are poorly trained ormisguidedly trying to help you. The good news from this is that there is hope - by using these methods you can slowly train your boss to be a better manager to you, and create a happy and successful work environment.
After this course you will be calm, collected, well prepared for any difficult conversations. In fact - you should be happy in the office and progressing quicklythrough your career!
The course looks atlots of real life examples (some of which will definitely get you cringing) and give youpractical tools you can use right away to get better results in your workrelationship. Whether you're brand new to a role,or been living with this toxic relationship for years,this course will build essential skills for your negotiations, relationship building, and overcoming confrontationnerves. Chris Croft is an international speaker, and widely published author, who's been teaching Leadership Skills to companies for over 20 years. He's taught all over the world, as well as online, and has an entertaining and practical teaching style. This course is guaranteed to keep you engaged and amused, and teach you life changing skills for home and work.
The course overview includes:
Identifying what type of BadBoss you haveWhether they are misguided and poorly trained or truly beyond hopeBe able to implement practical changes to turn your work life aroundHow tobeconfident and respectful going into an interventionGetting your message across clearly and effectivelyWhen to start looking for another job elsewhereWhether raising an official grievance is a good ideaAnd lots lots more!
Bynavigating a difficult boss successfully, not only will you pave the way for future promotions, you'll also have changed your whole life from despair to happiness!
This course comes with a 30 day money back guaranteeWho this course is for:
Someone struggling with a difficult boss or manager - there is hope!
Anyone in a corporate environment with a boss.... this could be a future issue for you

Time: 1.5h

Instructor Details

Chris Croft

4.6 Rating
175 Reviews

Chris Croft is one of the UK's leading trainers and provides a wide variety of courses designed to involve, inspire and motivate people of all levels. To date Chris has trained some 87,000 people and enjoys a 94% rate of repeat business. Chris is also a successful author, with his first book 'Time Management' published in 1996 to wide acclaim and has since been followed by fourteen others. His tip of the month email goes out regularly to over 10,000 people. Chris is passionate about practical and fun education with courses that are memorable, entertaining and immediately actionable.