How To Become More Assertive Using Cbt Techniques

How to improve your communication style to address difficult situations and improve your self confidence

What you'll learn

To understand what is assertiveness

To learn the difference between passive, aggressive, passive aggressive and assertive behaviours

To learn how to develop assertiveness skills and how to use them effectively

To improve communication skills in your workplace, with friends and family

Requirements

There is no prior knowledge required

Description

Do you struggle to make yourself heard? Do you find it difficult to deal with conflict? Do you suffer from shyness? Or sticking up for yourself?Then why not learn how to be more assertive? The course helps you to build positive relationships both in your personal and professional life.The benefit of this course is easy to follow modules explaining how to communicate more effectively and to find better ways to express yourself.By learning assertiveness skills, this could make a big difference to you speaking up at work and making yourselfThe course is designed to have short, easy to follow containing practical steps. There are additional download materials to enhance your learning.The course contains the following modules:-1. How to Communicate What you Want when you Want2. Defining Assertiveness3. Self directed learning4. Thinking Assertively5. Behavioural Experiments6. Introduction to Transactional Analysis7. Application of Transactional Analysis8. Three Simple Assertiveness Techniques9. Six More Assertiveness Techniques10. CBT and Assertiveness11. Compassion and Visualisation Techniques12. How to Say No13. Coping with Criticism14. Giving and Receiving Compliments15. Putting it all TogetherThis course follows Cognitive Behaviour Therapy techniques to give you a deeper understanding of the barriers to you becoming more assertive.  As the course is written by a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist, it is specifically designed to use CBT techniques.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Module One

Lecture 2 How to communicate

Section 3: Module Two - Defining Assertiveness

Lecture 3 Defining Assertiveness

Section 4: Module Three - Self Directed Learning

Lecture 4 Self directed learning

Section 5: Module Four - Thinking Assertively

Lecture 5 Thinking assertively

Section 6: Behavioural Experiments

Lecture 6 Behavioural Experiments

Section 7: Module Six - Transactional Analysis

Lecture 7 What is Transactional Analysis

Section 8: Module 7 Applying Transactional Analysis

Lecture 8 Applying Transactional Analysis

Section 9: Three Simple Assertiveness skills

Lecture 9 Three simple assertiveness skills

Section 10: Module Nine six more assertiveness skills

Lecture 10 Six more assertiveness skills

Section 11: CBT and Assertiveness skills

Lecture 11 CBT and Assertiveness skills

Section 12: How to develop self compassion

Lecture 12 How to be more compassionate

Section 13: How to say no

Lecture 13 How to say no

Section 14: How to cope with criticism

Lecture 14 How to cope with criticism

Section 15: How to give and receive compliments

Lecture 15 Coping with criticism

Section 16: How to give and receive compliments

Lecture 16 How to give and receive compliments

Section 17: Putting it all together

Lecture 17 Putting it all together

For people who struggle to communicate effectively or easily offend people