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
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A lot of people just don't like the idea of having
to tell people they can't do something. Or they feel
obligated when a colleague asks a favour; or feel
pressurised when someone senior to them needs
something done.
There are even some work places where saying no is
definitely frowned upon; and in, say, the police
force, could be a sackable or disciplinary offence.
After having worked for some time with people where
saying no either feels impossible or just isn't
allowed, we created a body of assertiveness work to
address it. In some cases it is indeed, how to say no
without ever saying the word.
Of course, there are times when saying the 'n' word is
a necessity. But in our experience, there is so much
anxiety around the possible consequences of using it,
that unassertive people don't say anything at all, or
agree to things they'd rather not, or get landed with
work that isn't theirs and so on.
That can't be good for anyone, but especially the
person who finds themselves staying late at the end of
the day to get their own work done after they've
finished everyone else's; or who swallows their
resentment when they are 'volunteered' for something
they don't want to do; or who quakes at the idea of
having to be a bit tougher with a supplier or even
someone they manage.
How Did Assertiveness Training All Get Started?
Assertiveness training really got started in a big way
around the time that 'women's liberation' was gaining
momentum. Assertiveness Courses began to spring up,
initially in the US, that offered women the
understanding and skills to give them more confidence
in the world of male-dominated workplaces.
The idea of assertiveness has evolved and perhaps
become less strident. In the early days lots of the
assertiveness advice was about just stand your ground,
just say no, be a broken record. Assertiveness
Training like that may help people feel good in the
first instance, but because it usually goes again the
grain of who they really are, they can easily get worn
down and in a very short space of time, go back to
being as unassertive as they were before.
Actually, that kind of assertiveness training can be a
bit like binge dieting: you lose weight on a crash
diet, then gain more back once your natural self
re-asserts (!) itself. So with assertiveness training
of the just stand your ground type: a couple of
failures will put you right back to square one or even
worse - you won't feel too good about trying stuff out
again.
Interestingly enough, the dictionary definitions of
assertiveness do back that "in your face" style: it's
all about declaring yourself, defending your rights
and thrusting yourself forward.
Source: Jo Ellen Gryzb
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