Managing Challenging and Unreasonable Interactions Training
Training in Safe, Inclusive, and Evidence-Based Approaches to Navigating difficult conversations.
Learn practical tools grounded in dispute resolution, psychology, and legal risk management to handle difficult conversations with confidence and fairness.
Why This Training Matters
Do you deal with challenging and unreasonable demands, behaviour or communication at work?
Do your team members or clients need support managing challenging interactions?
Do some of your clients/ customers/ participants/ staff need a different approach to communication?
Difficult interactions can undermine safety, fairness, and trust if not handled well.
In this training participants will learn structured approaches that: protect wellbeing, manage rise,
and support inclusive workplaces. This training blends dispute resolution practice, psychology, neuroscience, and legal frameworks.A unique integration that ensures participants walk away with skills that are practical, safe, and compliant.
Delivery Options
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
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Manage challenging conversations using safe and respectful communication techniques.
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Apply mediation and negotiation strategies to resolve disputes fairly.
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Recognise the psychological and neurological drivers of conflict and respond appropriately.
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Strengthen team culture and inclusivity by creating safe environments for dialogue.
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Understand legal and organisational obligations in managing risk, including fairness and procedural compliance.
Online Course Dates (Live)
Interested in this workshop for your team?
Contact us to discuss a customised version tailored to your organisation’s needs.
Who is this training for?
Ideal for professionals managing challenging workplace interactions.
HR professionals and people managers seeking to ensure safe and inclusive workplaces.
Complaints handlers and frontline staff who must manage escalated or high-risk conversations.
Leaders who want to strengthen team resilience, psychological safety, and procedural fairness.
Shiv Martins is a Lawyer, mediator, and trainer with over 15 years’ experience in workplace conflict resolution.
Shiv works with Australian and Brisbane based organisations and individuals training them to better engage with challenging and unreasonable conduct.
Her training and coaching in this space is inclusive, safety focussed and guided by principles of fairness and open communication.
By ensuring all training and coaching services are informed by up to date research in mental health, Shiv provides training and advice that has been demonstrated to manage and reduce the impact of unreasonable and challenging conduct in a broad range of workplace dispute contexts.
What Makes This Training Different?
Safety
Shiv’s training prioritises safety, equipping participants with evidence-based strategies to manage challenging conduct while protecting wellbeing and meeting legal risk obligations.
Inclusion
Skills are taught through an inclusive lens, highlighting reasonable adjustments and awareness of underlying mental health factors behind challenging or unreasonable behaviours.
Self Awareness and Self Care
Every session begins and ends with reflection, fostering resilience, self-awareness, and sustainable practices for managing difficult conversations and workplace conflict.
Practical Skills
Through interactive workshops, case studies, and coaching, Shiv delivers customised, practical tools that participants can immediately apply in real workplace contexts.
Trusted by Teams Across Australia
Client feedback from workplaces, government agencies and communities across Brisbane, Australia and New Zealand. Whether online or in person, from facilitated conversations to workplace team training, Shiv Martin Consulting has your conflict resolution covered.
Learn About Challenging and Unreasonable Interactions
Do you feel you have the skills but your policies and processes let you down?
Or do you simply not have the resources (time) to get it right?
Working with challenging conduct is an inevitable part of dispute resolution across regulatory bodies, public service, HR, and complaints handling.
As a mediator, lawyer, and government decision maker, Shiv Martin brings an inclusive, evidence-based approach. With input from clinical mental health expertise, this workshop equips practitioners with essential skills, knowledge, and strategies to manage difficult behaviour and build resilience.
Shiv has trained HR teams, government agencies, tribunals, and regulatory bodies in practical approaches to challenging interactions and workplace conflict.