How to Be Assertive and Speak up with Confidence

Assertiveness Definition and Meaning; Increase your Confidence; Speak up; Reduce Stress; Worry less; Talk Effectively.

What you'll learn

Learn what assertiveness means
Identify if you are passive-aggressive, assertive, passive or aggressive and why it matters
Feel less guilty and anxious before speaking up
Find out how to be more assertive
Identify your work and emotional challenges in speaking up
Recognize different communication styles, their beliefs and behaviors
Discover your current communication style tendencies
Avoid the passive-aggressive trap

Requirements

The course will be more useful if you have some previous student, work or community experiences.

Description

Be more assertive.

Do you feel STUCK in your job? Do you ever feel UNDER-APPRECIATED by your boss after working hard? Do you feel UNDER-VALUED? Do you get LESS RECOGNITION than you deserve? Learn assertiveness!

Most of us who dedicate our sweat and blood to companies experience those feelings.

Guess what!? The problem is not you. The problem is that most managers are terrible with managing people, and most companies have bad company cultures.

However there is a SECRET to make your manager get better at managing you. There is a way to get unstuck and be appreciated for your hard work. It all starts with acting and communicating ASSERTIVELY!!! That is why I am so passionate about Assertiveness.

That is what this course is about.

What is assertiveness? How can it help you get unstuck, receive appreciation and recognition at work?

What is the definition of assertive? What does assertive mean?

How to be assertive in order to have effective business communication?

Assertiveness is key for effective communication, career success, authentic and low stress life. When you don't speak up, you give your power away to others, feel less confident and are exploited by others. Learn to be assertive.

Does this happen to you?

Your boss never says thank you?

You feel guilty taking time off from work?

You work like crazy and never get a raise?

They take advantage of you at work?

You feel overwhelmed with too much work!?

You are quiet in situations where you wish you had said something?

You keep ruminating and replaying responses over and over in your mind?

You afraid of sounding mean, aggressive or rude when you stand up for yourself?

They don’t notice you?

You find it hard to ask for what you want?

You are in the right place.

Speaking up was a challenge for me for many years. Assertiveness was the answer to my biggest problems and it changed my life.

I've done extensive research to learn and apply assertiveness into my life. Now I want to help you learn it.

This is what you will accomplish in this course:

Learn what assertiveness is

Create a plan to reduce stress

Identify your emotional and work challenges related to speaking up

Recognize 4 communication styles, their strengths and weaknesses

Spot manipulation

Recognize the feelings, thinking, speaking and body language of assertive communication

In addition, this course will help you learn more about your personal challenges and preferences through many self-discovery activities.

By the end of the course, you will:

Feel more confident to stand up for yourself through assertive communication

Feel in control of your career

Better manage your thoughts and emotions

I will also support you by answering any relevant question you may have about the course, because my mission is to help you become more assertive!

I look forward to seeing you in the course!

Who this course is for:

People at work, school or community, who find it hard to speak up in meetings, deal with feedback and evaluations, ask for what they want and manage harsh criticism.
Professionals and students who want to increase their self-confidence and self-awareness.