Bad Boss - Dealing with a Toxic Manager (Udemy.com)
Bad Boss: practical solutions for dealing with a difficult or toxic manager
Created by: Chris Croft
Last updated May 2025
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
How it compares
Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 74% of them
- Reviews2,327#276 of 1,211 by number of reviews
- Length1.4 hoursshorter than 80% of them
- Last updatedMay 2025earlier than 60% of them
Course Description
Bad Boss - Dealing with a Toxic Manager
Be happy and successful at work with these practical solutions handling a Bad Boss. Dealing with a difficult or Toxic 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 from being stressed or unhappy at work to joyfully spending the weekend reading on the beach. A difficult boss using aggressions 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 term progress and daily satisfaction... and that's what this course is designed to cure. If you are living with a challenging boss or manager and instead want to create an environment which is happy, productive and respectful, this course is perfect for you. It is possible, and there is hope!
In this course you'll learn practical techniques to deal with aggressions 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 practical non-confrontational techniques, and detailed 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 or misguidedly 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 quickly through your career! The course looks at lots of real life examples (some of which will definitely get you cringing) and give you practical tools you can use right away to get better results in your work relationship. 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 confrontation nerves.
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 Bad Boss you have
Whether they are misguided and poorly trained or truly beyond hope
Be able to implement practical changes to turn your work life around
How to be confident and respectful going into an intervention
Getting your message across clearly and effectively
When to start looking for another job elsewhere
Whether raising an official grievance is a good idea
And lots lots more!
By navigating 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 guarantee
Instructor Details
- 4.6 Rating
2,327 Reviews
Chris Croft
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 in person and millions online. His video courses are some of the most viewed in the world.
Chris has come from an Engineering background, with a masters degree from Cambridge University, qualifying as a Chartered Engineer, and working as a senior manager in manufacturing for 10 years. He gained an MBA and worked as a university lecturer for four years before starting his own training company 25 years ago.
Chris runs face to face courses in the UK, does zoom training for companies anywhere in the world, and makes video courses in his own studio. You can follow him on Linkedin and YouTube, and he has 18 books on Amazon.
Chris is passionate about practical and fun education with courses that are memorable, entertaining and immediately actionable.
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Reviews
By Zak on 4/17/2026
Very bad content. I regret purchasing it. All the ideas he is giving is basically leaving your job and looking for another job. I don’t see any benefits.
By Thabani Ngidi on 9/2/2023
Timing for this course is just impeccable. I was clouded with frustration but Chris helped put everything into perspective. From me understanding who I am dealing with to sharing advise on how I can best navigate. His advice sounds practical enough, I know exactly what to do next.
By Brian Gutierrez on 8/1/2023
Chris’ library of courses is large and each has a lot useful material. I want to quickly leave a review and also provide some indication to anyone that may be curious about this course. This production is minimal and the language is conversational-many of the courses are the same. The information in this course will age well, and I can see why it would cross languages easily.
By Martin L. Draper on 5/9/2023
I am always looking for areas to improve upon for my self as a manager. I saw a few areas in this course to improve my skills as well as areas to work with my leadership folks above me. Chris tends to make his courses informative and able to draw in practical examples to create the "AH ha" moment. Thanks Chris..
By Umida Hashimova on 4/22/2023
I watched several courses by Chris Croft and loved all of them. They are filled with practical tips that can all be used in your professional life and in some cases personal life as well since, for instance, we negotiate with friends, partners, and family members. In this course, he focuses on how to take care of yourself, stay sane at your job, and work out issues with your boss instead of pretending that all is good while suffering silently.
By Audra Atkins on 4/14/2023
I appreciated the honest of the course that bad bosses can range from poor training to just completely evil. That is a truth that seems to be rarely acknowledged and dealt with. The course gives useful and practical strategies for dealing with a variety of poor management styles.
By Anonymized User on 4/30/2021
This is the third course I take with you -And I've subscribed to almost all of you've published!, and I have to say I am amazed. I just love the way you explain and tell stories to exemplify. Thank you for all the information you share, Chris. I love your courses.
By Anas Md Nor on 11/22/2020
A very engaging and easy to understand style.
By Marie Gorda on 11/15/2020
yes, good to have lots of small sections. good to have lots of examples.
By Sarah Horne on 11/15/2020
Guter Kurs. Mehr Tiefe bei den einzelnen Themen wre schn.
By Marie-Soleil Perrier on 11/1/2020
Content is awesome. Clear, effective...
By Leigh Purinton on 10/27/2020
Yes! I have learned a lot about the different types of bosses and their characteristics.
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