Assertiveness Training
Workshops
The goal of our Assertiveness Training
workshop is to enable participants to learn to express their rights, requests, opinions, and feelings honestly, directly, and appropriately without violating the rights and self-esteem of others.
Each
Assertiveness Training Institute training
workshop begins with a self-assessment that
enables individuals to understand their personality.
We delve into each person’s strengths,
weaknesses and stress areas to help people understand
what makes them “tick.” We then
begin the process of enabling participants to
understand how to
communicate
more effectively with others. Through various
activities and assertiveness training exercises, participants
then begin to recognize other communication
styles and the best way to communicate to them.
Here is when the process of becoming more assertive
truly takes shape – by understanding the
needs of other communication styles, participants
learn how to express their opinion and stand
up for their interests regardless of who they
are dealing with.
For more information on our
assertiveness training
workshops
contact us
here.
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Assertiveness training is a behavioral technique
designed to develop the necessary skills to manage
interpersonal situations effectively. Specific areas
of training may include developing new strategies for
conflict resolution, growth goals and stress
management that result in taking a more active
approach to self-determination. Used in various
settings including schools, corporate boardrooms and
vocational programs, it identifies three main styles
of communication: aggressive, passive and assertive.
Communicating more assertively and effectively
requires developing an understanding of one’s
communication style and learning modification of it
through application of assertiveness principles.
Aggressive individuals express rights and self-enhance
at the expense of others (win-lose solution). Passive
individuals are self-denying, inhibited and allow
others to make choices for them (lose-win solution).
Assertive individuals are expressive, self-enhancing,
make personal choices that reflect respect for self
and others (strives for win-win solution).
Assertiveness can be assessed. When differing with
someone, do you speak up and share your viewpoint
without hesitation? Do you accept positive criticism
and suggestion? Do you have confidence in your own
judgment? Do you express thoughts, feelings,
intentions, and goals in a direct way? Do you work for
a solution that benefits all parties? Assertive
behavior is constructive and involves a balance
between aggression and passivity that promotes
fairness and allows others to experience
self-empowerment.
The goal of assertiveness training is to increase the
variety and number of situations in which assertive
behavior is possible and to become aware of personal
rights: You have a right to accept your convictions as
legitimate, to negotiate for change, to change your
mind, to request clarification, to put yourself first
sometimes, to not have to justify yourself to others,
to not respond to a situation, to ignore the advice of
others, to not anticipate others’ needs or wishes, to
have your own opinions, to decide on a different
course of action, and to make mistakes.
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