Description
Description
Have you ever felt intimidated by others? How many times have you told yourself that you could have done better when handling a conversation only to repeat the same mistakes again? Do you like to stay out of conflicts and keep to yourself? Do people take advantage of you?
This course is for anyone whose answers to these questions are “yes”. Delegates will learn how to boost their confidence and express themselves assertively. Handling other people, whether they are aggressive or passive, is something we all need to do no matter what we do in our jobs and doing it well consistently requires a skill. This course helps delegates to master this skill.
Assertive staff are extremely lucrative to companies because they can express themselves freely, get things done, don’t take no for an answer (which is useful when dealing with clients) while at the same time appear polite, professional and fair.
This course contains many practical, step-by step guidelines on how to approach others and construct sentences to get maximum results. Delegates will learn about the right attitudes, body language, styles of communication and psychology behind manners such as passive-aggressive behaviour. Delegates also learn how to stay in control and project that feeling into others as well.
The best approach to master assertive techniques is to go through case studies, participate in practical exercises and keep repeatedly performing the skill until it is completely memorised. This approach which is used in this course allows the delegates to learn the content fully during the course and leave the course knowing that they can confidently address real-world challenges as they appear.
Training Objectives
- • Distinguish between assertive
- aggressive and passive behaviour
- • Express yourself assertively using specific verbal and non-verbal techniques and get maximum results
- • Request what you want assertively and get it
- • Criticise and change behaviour while staying friends
- • Use a simple technique to reinforce the behaviour of others
- • Disagree with the other person in such a way that helps them understand your stance on the matter without taking it personally
- • Say No and be loved for it!
Course Outline
- What Is Assertiveness?<br />
- • How does assertiveness differ from aggressive or passive behaviour?<br />
- • What are examples of assertive behaviour?<br />
- • How to avoid appearing aggressive, when you want to be assertive<br />
- • What is passive-aggressive behaviour and how to deal with it?<
- How to Criticise?<br />
- • What kinds of criticisms are good and what kinds are bad?<br />
- • How different types of people react to criticism?<br />
- • How to criticise and change someone’s behaviour<br />
- • How to receive criticism<br />
- • How to use a step-by-step approach to give constructive feedback<
- How to Deal with Emotions?<br />
- • How to appeal to emotions to get maximum effect<br />
- • How to present your view systematically and assertively<br />
- • How to take advantage of body language to say and get what you want<br />
- • How to distinguish between different behaviours using non-verbal communications<
- How to Request?<br />
- • How to ask for what you want<br />
- • How to construct your sentences to get your message across confidently<br />
- • How to use a number of advanced techniques to respond to someone when your request is not registered<
- How to Praise?<br />
- • What does praising do?<br />
- • Why praising is difficult?<br />
- • How to deliver your praise to get maximum results<
- How to Disagree?<br />
- • How to express your disagreement and stay friends<br />
- • What is the 6-step disagreement technique?<br />
- • How to say No
