Publication Details

Get Assertive!
Price: $99.00
Business Focus: Personal Development
Instructor: VivianHarte
Course Code: att
Delivery Method: Instructor-led Online Course
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Course Overview:
Are you tired of being intimidated and treated badly by others? Get the assertiveness training you need in order to be more confident and powerful with family members, friends, bosses, co-workers, professionals, service people, and even total strangers. Discover how you lose your power when you talk and what you can do to get it back. Learn how to deal with anger and criticism effectively. It's your turn to speak out!
Instructor Biography:
Vivian Harte has been teaching people how to be more assertive for more than 10 years. She teaches a "Women in Society" class for a large college, and also helps students at a major university learn how to express themselves assertively in the classroom and in the workplace.
Course Syllabus:
Lesson 1 Syllabus The Importance of Being Assertive
Lesson 2 Syllabus Inner Changes to Become Assertive
Lesson 2 Objective Understand the difference between passive, aggressive and assertive attitudes, gestures and phrases.
Lesson 3 Syllabus How You Lose Power Verbally
Lesson 3 Objective Identify your inner script and learning the methods of visualizing, use affirmations, tell your story, write a journal, and create a collage to change negative self-images in your inner script
Lesson 4 Syllabus How to be Verbally Assertive
Lesson 4 Objective Identify the various ways non-assertive people lose power through their words by using tag questions, qualifiers, disclaimers, fillers and words of compassion.
Lesson 5 Syllabus Creating an Assertive Body Image
Lesson 5 Objective Understand how to be verbally assertive using the form of direct, honest statements, framing assertive messages with four forms of “I” statements, and dealing assertively with anger and criticism from others
Lesson 6 Syllabus Adapting Your Message to Others' Personalities and Resistance
Lesson 6 Objective Understand how important body image is in emphasizing and being congruent with your assertive statements; learn how to use eye contact, facial expressions, voice, body posture, gait and clothes to create an assertive body image
Lesson 7 Syllabus Assertiveness with Your Family
Lesson 7 Objective Identify ways to adapt the assertive message according to the personality type and resistance offered by the other person.
Lesson 8 Syllabus Assertiveness with Your Mate
Lesson 8 Objective Learn the verbally manipulative statements family members use and how to assertively respond to them, how to act assertively with your parents and siblings, and how to deal assertively with your children.
Lesson 9 Syllabus Assertiveness with Friends and in Social Situations
Lesson 9 Objective Understand the different emotional types of individuals and how each deals with other people and conflicts, how these different emotional types act in relationships, and how to deal with conflict assertively.
Lesson 10 Syllabus Assertiveness in the Workplace
Lesson 10 Objective Learn how to use assertiveness skills and techniques in dealing with friends, participating in social conversation, and dealing with social situations
Lesson 11 Syllabus Being an Assertive Consumer and Dealing with Everyday Situations
Lesson 11 Objective Learn how to be assertive in job interviews, be assertive with bosses, co-workers and subordinates, deal assertively with sexual harassment, and recognize whether a company encourages or discourages assertiveness
Lesson 12 Syllabus Final Steps in Becoming Assertive
Lesson 12 Objective Understand how to deal assertively with people as a consumer, such as waiters, salespeople, government employees and professionals, and how to be assertive in everyday situations