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Assertiveness Skills: Communicating with Authority and Impact

 
Course: 244     Type: RealityPlus     Duration: 2 Days

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You Will Learn How To
  • Develop a positive, assertive style
  • Respond productively to challenging behavior patterns in others
  • Build a personal skill set that will enable you to react positively in demanding situations
  • Improve your relationships through a productive and powerful attitude
  • Gain confidence in your ability to handle challenging situations
  • Generate the results you want when dealing with other people

Course Benefits
Professionals at all levels need the ability to project their thoughts and ideas with an assertive communication style. The skill of expressing opinions confidently and clearly is critical. Through workshops, practice sessions, video demonstrations, self assessments, real-playing and role-playing activities, you gain the confidence to behave assertively. You learn to set boundaries, send the right verbal and non-verbal cues and respectfully ask for what you want.

Who Should Attend
Business professionals, team leaders, and those who wish to build successful, assertive communication skills.

Experiential activities, including real-playing and role-playing, allow you to simulate real-world situations and practice the skills and techniques presented throughout the course. Activities include:
  • Practicing assertive introductions
  • Defining assertive and non-assertive behavior
  • Recognizing assertive characteristics
  • Modeling assertive behavior options
  • Assertively managing real-world pressures and demands
  • Profiling your conflict handling style
  • Applying assertiveness techniques
  • Reacting rapidly to common challenges
  • Planning successful outcomes
  • Giving and receiving structured feedback

Course 244 Content
Assertiveness Essentials
Recognizing modes of interactive behavior
  • Characteristics of passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive and assertive behavior
  • Critical attributes of assertive behavior
  • Distinguishing the modes in action
  • Identifying areas of personal vulnerability
  • Responding productively to manipulation
Real-time assertiveness skills
  • Capturing the essentials of an interaction
  • Determining when a situation calls for assertive action
  • Managing the what and how of interactions
  • Articulating the results you want to achieve
Enhancing your success through effective influence strategies
  • Guiding effective choices using an assertiveness process model
  • Creating powerful outcomes that work
Assertiveness as an Expression of Personal Power
Pinpointing patterns that drive behavior
  • Recognizing the influences of personal history on behavior
  • Exploring how identity, habits and fear impact results
  • Creating new patterns of personal effectiveness
Mapping how people handle conflict
  • Enhancing your ability to respond constructively to conflict
  • Assessing your preferred style
  • Building an adaptative approach to conflict
  • Choosing the right approach at the right time
Building Your Assertiveness Skill Set
Tools and techniques for building your assertiveness style
  • Keeping the conversation on track
  • Giving yourself time to think
  • Creating clarity in confusing situations
  • Getting your point across in meetings
  • Saying no productively
  • Deflecting criticism and personal attack
  • Handling bullying and pressure
Taking responsibility
  • Owning your point of view
  • Giving up blame to enhance your effectiveness
  • The power of "I" statements
Putting techniques into practice
  • Accurately assessing your situation
  • Selecting the appropriate tools for the situation
  • Planning for productive results
Transcending Challenging Situations
Articulating what you want
  • Setting assertiveness goals
  • Defining preferred outcomes
  • Creating new assertiveness habits
  • Asserting "up" to supervisors and leaders for more productive outcomes
Giving and receiving feedback
  • Applying a four-step process to plan for difficult conversations
  • Staying factual in emotionally charged situations
  • Providing a powerful rationale for shifts in behavior
  • Managing yourself in demanding situations
  • Applying best practices under pressure
Mastering Assertiveness Practicalities
Actualizing your preferred behaviors and responses
  • Acquiring insight and awareness through journaling
  • Developing a personal action plan
  • Reinforcing the rewards of change
  • Recognizing areas where you need support
Applying assertiveness skills to your real-world challenges
  • Gaining fresh perspective on troublesome situations
  • Creating and practicing new behaviors
  • Planning your assertiveness strategy
  • Adopting an attitude of responsibility and respect
  • Taking the next step!

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