Assertiveness for Maximum Impact CIPD
Details
Do you sometimes find it hard to speak up or make yourself heard in meetings? Are there times when you let your emotions govern your behaviour? If so, you will gain tremendously from learning to think, feel and behave assertively. This two-day course gives you the essential skills and techniques and helps you develop the underlying beliefs to take greater control of your life.
Run as it features here, or run in-house where the content can be tailored to suit your organisational needs; cost effective if a number of people require training.
Course Tutors
Ms Jessica Raby
Jessica Raby is an independent management development consultant, trainer and executive coach. She draws on techniques and experience gained over 20 years in a broad range of environments. Jessica has a firm understanding of the corporate world and the complex challenges faced, having worked as a business analyst at Accenture and as an ergonomics consultant. She had delivered to a wide variety of sectors including high tech and information technology, government, pharmaceuticals, financial and legal. Her background is in health and psychology and her qualifications include a degree in Physiotherapy and a Master’s degree in Ergonomics. She is licensed to use both the MBTI and SDI instruments, employing psychometric tools and 360 degree feedback where appropriate. She works with teams to understand how they can work more effectively together and develop themselves individually as leaders. Jessica specialises in communication and behaviour; in particular assertiveness, influencing, motivation and leadership.
Who is it for
Assertiveness for Maximum Impact is recommended for managers or team leaders who need to assert their position; technical specialists who feel they lack authority and impact when dealing with other people; support staff who need to manage conflicting demands and priorities; people who believe, or have feedback that, they behave too passively or aggressively at work and want to develop a new approach.
Benefits
- By the end of this Assertiveness for Maximum Impact course you will be able to:
- confidently express your views and opinions
- ask for what you want in a way that gets listened to
- say no to unreasonable requests
- stand your ground in the face of resistance or manipulation
- deliver difficult messages without undue emotional interference
- choose more successful responses when faced with aggressive or passive behaviour from others
Programme
Day one
- What is assertiveness and why is it worth developing?
- How assertiveness differs from aggressive and passive behaviour.
- How do I come across?
- Barriers to assertiveness – how can we overcome the barriers?
- The behaviour iceberg; what drives our choices?
- Helpful and unhelpful mind sets.
- Transactional analysis – how it relates to Assertiveness.
- Relationship Mapping.
Day two
Assertiveness Techniques
Thinking and feeling assertive
- the assertive pause
Basic assertion
- asking for what you want and saying no
Broken record
- standing your ground
Empathetic assertion
- getting your message heard and understood when you disagree
Negative feelings assertion
- giving feedback on others’ behaviour
Discrepancy assertion
- when you’re not getting what you want
Consequence assertion
- being clear about what’s acceptable
Case study work
- how the techniques can be used in combination
Action Planning
This course is no longer available.
Course details
Details
Do you sometimes find it hard to speak up or make yourself heard in meetings? Are there times when you let your emotions govern your behaviour? If so, you will gain tremendously from learning to think, feel and behave assertively. This two-day course gives you the essential skills and techniques and helps you develop the underlying beliefs to take greater control of your life.
Run as it features here, or run in-house where the content can be tailored to suit your organisational needs; cost effective if a number of people require training.
Course Tutors
Ms Jessica Raby
Jessica Raby is an independent management development consultant, trainer and executive coach. She draws on techniques and experience gained over 20 years in a broad range of environments. Jessica has a firm understanding of the corporate world and the complex challenges faced, having worked as a business analyst at Accenture and as an ergonomics consultant. She had delivered to a wide variety of sectors including high tech and information technology, government, pharmaceuticals, financial and legal. Her background is in health and psychology and her qualifications include a degree in Physiotherapy and a Master’s degree in Ergonomics. She is licensed to use both the MBTI and SDI instruments, employing psychometric tools and 360 degree feedback where appropriate. She works with teams to understand how they can work more effectively together and develop themselves individually as leaders. Jessica specialises in communication and behaviour; in particular assertiveness, influencing, motivation and leadership.
Who is it for
Assertiveness for Maximum Impact is recommended for managers or team leaders who need to assert their position; technical specialists who feel they lack authority and impact when dealing with other people; support staff who need to manage conflicting demands and priorities; people who believe, or have feedback that, they behave too passively or aggressively at work and want to develop a new approach.
Benefits
- By the end of this Assertiveness for Maximum Impact course you will be able to:
- confidently express your views and opinions
- ask for what you want in a way that gets listened to
- say no to unreasonable requests
- stand your ground in the face of resistance or manipulation
- deliver difficult messages without undue emotional interference
- choose more successful responses when faced with aggressive or passive behaviour from others
Programme
Day one
- What is assertiveness and why is it worth developing?
- How assertiveness differs from aggressive and passive behaviour.
- How do I come across?
- Barriers to assertiveness – how can we overcome the barriers?
- The behaviour iceberg; what drives our choices?
- Helpful and unhelpful mind sets.
- Transactional analysis – how it relates to Assertiveness.
- Relationship Mapping.
Day two
Assertiveness Techniques
Thinking and feeling assertive
- the assertive pause
Basic assertion
- asking for what you want and saying no
Broken record
- standing your ground
Empathetic assertion
- getting your message heard and understood when you disagree
Negative feelings assertion
- giving feedback on others’ behaviour
Discrepancy assertion
- when you’re not getting what you want
Consequence assertion
- being clear about what’s acceptable
Case study work
- how the techniques can be used in combination
Action Planning
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