5 Steps To Assertiveness

Author : S. Renee Smith
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1939754631
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 5 Steps to Assertiveness written by S. Renee Smith and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 5 Steps to Assertiveness is the modern how-to guide to communicate with assertiveness and build stronger relationships in today's world. Assertiveness goes beyond standing up for yourself. Assertiveness is saying what you want in a way that makes others want to listen. This philosophy is at the heart of the self-development method created by nationally recognized self-esteem and communication expert S. Renee Smith. In 5 Steps to Assertiveness, the nationally recognized self-esteem and communication expert distills what she's learned and taught about assertiveness over the past 20 years into 5 easy-to-follow steps. Built on her successful engagement with hundreds of organizations and individual clients, S. Renee has curated this actionable 5-step how-to guide that will help you see the value of what you have to say— and gain the confidence to say it. 5 Steps to Assertiveness is the most current guide to persuasive communication, and includes: A 5-step assertiveness action plan to help you understand your communication style and identify changes you can make that will lead to greater assertiveness An overview of the 4 different communication styles and the benefits and challenges of changing yours Practical exercises and examples that lead to real-world assertiveness in personal and professional situations When you communicate with assertiveness, you control where you go, how far you go, and the shape you're in when you get there. With 5 Steps to Assertiveness, the power is in your hands.

Author : Julie de Azevedo Hanks
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626253390
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assertiveness Guide for Women written by Julie de Azevedo Hanks and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isn’t it time you took a stand? Many women struggle with assertiveness, but if you’re prone to anxiety and avoidance, it is especially difficult. Grounded in attachment theory, this essential guide will help you identify your thoughts and feelings, balance your emotions, communicate your needs, and set healthy boundaries to improve your life. When you’re assertive, you’re able to communicate your needs and wishes clearly while respecting yourself and anyone else involved in the interaction. But when you aren’t assertive, you may stop yourself from saying anything when your needs aren’t being met, or end up lashing out in hostile or hurtful ways. People with different attachment styles struggle with being assertive for different reasons, and even women with a secure attachment style may have difficulty expressing emotion when faced with challenging circumstances. Using strategies based in mindfulness, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), The Assertiveness Guide for Women can help you understand the attachment styles that keep you from asserting yourself. You’ll learn about the three communication stances—from the passive Doormat to the aggressive (or passive-aggressive) Sword to the assertive Lantern—and find practical examples that show you how to apply your new communication and emotional awareness skills in your own life. Rather than being caught in a cycle of rumination and regret when you’re unable to express yourself or even acknowledge your own needs, you’ll be ready to assert yourself and get what you want. Whether you’re anxious and overwhelmed by the intensity of your emotions, avoidant and struggle to identify your emotions, or otherwise have difficulty expressing yourself, this book will help you become more aware of your own thoughts and feelings, and empower you to ask for what you need, set boundaries, and speak your truth for a more fulfilling life.

Author : Jeff Davidson
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780028619644
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Idiot's Guide to Assertiveness written by Jeff Davidson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1997 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on increasing vocal self-confidence, projecting authority through body language, and arguing without losing one's temper

Author : Randy J. Paterson
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1648480292
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Assertiveness Workbook written by Randy J. Paterson and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand up and be heard! With more than 100,000 copies sold, this fully revised and updated self-help classic by psychologist Randy J. Paterson—author of How to Be Miserable—will help you get started today. Do you feel uncomfortable in situations where you disagree with others? Do you struggle to express your opinions or assert your boundaries? If you’ve ever felt paralyzed by confrontation, or have bitten your tongue rather than offer an opposing point of view, you know that a lack of assertiveness can leave you feeling marginalized and powerless. Assertiveness is a critical skill that not only influences your professional success, but also your personal happiness! So, how can you make sure your voice is heard? The Assertiveness Workbook contains powerfully effective skills grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) to help you communicate more effectively, improve social interactions, and express yourself with confidence and clarity. You’ll learn how to set and maintain personal boundaries while staying connected, and discover ways to be more genuine and open in your relationships. Finally, you’ll learn to defend yourself calmly if you’re unfairly criticized or asked to submit to unreasonable requests. Fully revised and updated—this new edition includes information on the impact of social media, mini-dialogs to help you navigate tricky social interactions, and skills to shift your behaviors to be more assertive—so you can improve your communication skills, and your life!

Author : Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608821730
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness written by Sherrie Mansfield Vavrichek and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Speaking up for yourself has benefits, but it has costs, too. Many people who struggle with assertiveness are paralyzed by worries that they’ll seem mean, petty, or that they will hurt the other person’s feelings. Even though they want to speak up, they may keep their true needs and opinions to themselves because of these fears—eventually building stress, resentment, and alienation. The Guide to Compassionate Assertiveness does not require that readers ignore the needs of others and focus solely on their own desires. Rather, this unique blend of cognitive behavioral therapy-based assertiveness training and Buddhist psychology helps readers practice assertiveness skills while caring deeply about the welfare of others. This book helps readers develop a form of assertiveness that emphasizes collaboration, negotiation, and compromise. It focuses on speaking up for the benefit of others and speaking up for the relationship, not just one’s own needs. In this way, readers learn to assert their needs in ways that match their compassionate value systems. This book is the ideal assertiveness guide for those who are afraid of rejection, have a deep concern for how others perceive them, often feel judged by others, or have difficulty expressing their feelings and needs. Readers learn to apply assertiveness skills in all domains of their lives, including in romantic relationships, as parents, at work, and in social settings.

Author : David Bonham-Carter
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 9781848315235
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Introducing Assertiveness written by David Bonham-Carter and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2013-01-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is assertiveness, and what are benefits? Filled with straightforward, practical advice, Introducing Assertiveness: A Practical Guide will help you find out, allowing you to overcome passive behaviour and take ownership of your own thoughts and feelings without becoming aggressive. Experienced life and business coach David Bonham-Carter provides clear, practical steps to help you develop they key characteristics of assertiveness – steps that can improve your work life and your personal life.

Author : Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D.
Publisher : Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D., A Psychological Corporation
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Five Steps of Assertiveness written by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D. and published by Steven T. Griggs, Ph.D., A Psychological Corporation. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’ve been a practicing psychologist in an outpatient setting for over thirty-two years. I run into eight conditions or "issues" almost every day (addictions, anxiety, ADHD/learning disabilities, assertiveness, children’s behaviors, mood disorders, relationships and self-esteem). Assertiveness is important unto itself, but plays a very strong role in the other seven areas. Usually, when people are assertive, the problems in each of these groups diminish. Assertiveness is a skill that everyone needs and uses to some degree, in just about every situation. It turns out assertiveness can be taught to almost everyone. I’ve taught it to children as young as two. Older adults can learn new tricks, too, including this one. I’ve taught assertiveness to schizophrenics. I even got a Brazilian teenager to learn it without me being able to speak Portuguese (I taught him non-verbally). Anyone can learn to be assertive. I’ve read most of the pop-psychology literature on assertiveness over the last 30+ years. Many of the books are excellent. They, like this ebook deal with a variety of assertivness aspects; for example, they talk about this peak experience for handling other assertive people, not feeling vulnerable or subservient, taking an assertiveness exam, standing up for yourself, competently assessing yourself and others, developing verbal assertiveness skills and self confidence, feeling self assured and expressing yourself and your opinions, feeling comfortable being outspoken, even being opinionated, how to stop being a human doormat, how to stop feeling intimidated and to deal with domineering people, being straightforward, stopping people from walking all over you, how to stop feeling inhibited, insecure, hesitant, and so on. Most of these books are too long to cover this relatively simple subject. NEW concdept: I’ve boiled down assertiveness into five basic. I’ve made this as easy to understand as is humanly possible, combining what I’ve read with what I’ve learned from clients. NEW concept: there are three levels of assertiveness. There are five ways to communicate: assertiveness, non-assertiveness, passivity, passive aggression and aggressive. NEW concept: to be assertive, you have to know the difference between content and process in your communication. You have to know how to "articulate the process" using just the right words, which I supply (almost eight hundred synonyms of the basic nine human feelings). This latter idea is the one thing that will increase your assertiveness fifty percent, even if you do nothing else. It's also something you can learn in under two minutes. I describe the two general categories of excuses and the seven most common reasons used to justify not being assertive. Then I describe thirteen points that make assertiveness effective. I sprinkle examples throughout the ebook, but include another section at the end with several more in-depth examples. Like my other ebooks, this one has no fat. Think of it as a "Cliffs Notes" publication. It's "sort of" a quick read (about an hour or two). I have to explain only a few new terms, because there are new ideas and the terms you probably already know are put together in new ways. The theory I espouse is different from standard "behavior change" books. It works better and is very simple to understand. That's the point of an ebook. My research has not turned up another ebook that does what mine does.

Author : Robert Alberti
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1626259623
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Your Perfect Right written by Robert Alberti and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your Perfect Right—the leading assertiveness guide with over 1.3 million copies sold—is now fully updated and revised. This indispensable guide to equal-relationship assertiveness is packed with step-by-step exercises, tips, and skills to help you express yourself effectively. Are you comfortable starting a conversation with strangers at a party? Do you sometimes feel ineffective in making your needs clear? Do you have difficulty saying no to persuasive people? Everyone needs a little help getting along with others. Assertiveness is a key social skill, as well as a tool for making your relationships more equal. Learning to respond more effectively to others can help you reduce stress and increase your sense of self-worth. In this fully updated and revised tenth edition, you’ll learn practical advice on dealing with difficult people, handling criticism, and expressing your feelings. You’ll also discover how to use humor in conflict resolution, ways to clarify others’ intentions, and how to distinguish between encouraging and discouraging communication habits. This edition also includes a new introduction by coauthor Robert Alberti, in addition to research and information on the subjects of anger and interpersonal communication. Assertiveness is an alternative to personal powerlessness or manipulation. The program in this book will help you develop effective ways to express yourself, maintain your self-respect, and show respect for others. This is not a “me-first” book—it's all about equal-relationship assertiveness!

Author : Patrick King
Publisher : Pkcs Media, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781647433017
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Everyday Assertiveness written by Patrick King and published by Pkcs Media, Incorporated. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stand your ground without guilt, fear, or awkward tension. Finally get what you deserve and stop "letting it slide". Who is making your daily choices for you? Is it you? Make sure you possess the everyday assertiveness to get what you want and resist the pressure to reject what you don't want. You've put yourself last your entire life. It's time for that to change. Stop enabling, sacrificing your needs, people pleasing, and being so "agreeable." The Art of Everyday Assertiveness is a guide for the chronically "nice," "overwhelmed," and "accommodating". It is a deep psychological dive into the beliefs that makes us lack assertiveness, and how to systematically combat and replace compulsions with healthy mindsets. This is a book that stands apart from others because of the plethora of real life examples and solutions. If your problem is assertiveness, you'll find the step by step answer in this book - included is an Assertiveness Action Plan unlike any other. Gain respect, set boundaries, and ask for what you really want. Patrick King is an internationally bestselling author and social skills coach. His writing draws of a variety of sources, from research, academic experience, coaching, and real life experience. He's also a recovering people pleaser who knows exactly how it feels to feel unable to speak his mind. How to decisively say NO and reclaim your time and energy Stop putting others first and being taken advantage of. -A wide variety of ways to say no - without tension or awkwardness. -Beating the subconscious beliefs that make you a compliant doormat. -How to set healthy boundaries and protect yourself from others. -How to ask for exactly what you want, when you want it. -The instinct to over-apologize and how to fix it. Stop being a "helpaholic" and start treating yourself better. Assertiveness is the first step to creating the life you want - not the life someone else wants for you, or taking care of someone else's to-do list. You're not responsible for other people's happiness. But you are responsible for yours. What makes you happy? Do that. What makes you unhappy? Avoid that. If other people interfere with this simple credo, assertiveness is what will save the day.

Author : Dale Carnegie Training
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1847379559
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 5 Essential People Skills written by Dale Carnegie Training and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever walked away from a conversation full of doubts and insecurities? Do you feel as if you've lost a little ground after every staff meeting? Most people are either too passive or too aggressive in their business lives, and they end up never getting the support, recognition, or respect that they desire. The business leaders and trainers from Dale Carnegie Training® have discovered that applying appropriate assertiveness to all interactions is the most effective approach to creating a successful career. The 5 Essential People Skillsshows how to be a positively assertive, prosperous and inspired professional. Readers learn to: •Relate to the seven major personality types •Live up to their fullest potential while achieving personal success •Create a cutting-edge business environment that delivers innovation and results •Use Carnegie's powerhouse Five-Part template for articulate communications that grow business •Resolve any conflict or misunderstanding by applying a handful of proven principles Once readers know and can employ these powerful skills, they will be well on their way to a new level of professional and personal achievement.