Dealing with Difficult Parents
Most education professionals will agree that managing the parents is far more difficult than managing the students. You’d probably also agree that 5% of the parents cause 95% of the duress.
What you receive within 24 hours at no cost:
- A program outline
- A bio of a proposed facilitator
- Program cost
- Possible dates (if requested)
Key learning outcomes
At the conclusion of this course participants will be able to:
- Implement strategies for better managing difficult parents
- Identify common causes of difficult behaviour in parents
- Apply a behavioural style framework to better manage behaviours
- Develop rapport (even when it seems impossible)
- Influence difficult parents to achieve a better outcome for the parent, teacher and child
- Fine-tune and clarify your protocols (a chain is only as strong as its weakest link)
- Identify boundaries and stay safe when a challenging situation occurs
- Discover how to deflect, diffuse, interrupt and delay the anger
- Differentiate between pathological and situation difficult behaviours
- Revisit your strategy to position your response to unwelcome parent behaviour
- Agree action plans
Course Description
This niche course was designed by an organisational psychologist specifically for Education Professionals. We also recommend inviting non-teaching staff, so the school has an integrated strategy to deal with difficult parents.
Difficult parents have a knack of weaving around your protocols. So it’s important to have a robust strategy in place. Of course, parents have a right to air their views. But they don’t have a right to menace and cause unpleasantness to staff. Participants will also discover techniques to diffuse a situation quickly before it escalates.
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly.
— P. J. O’Rourke
When you become a parent, or a teacher, you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child, regulating it.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Guidelines
- Group Size: An ideal group size is 12– 25 participants.
- Venue: For your convenience, you can choose to conduct this program at your offices. Alternatively, we can provide a venue at a small additional cost.
- Cost: Upon request.
- Target Audience: Education Professionals (and non-teaching staff)
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