Unlocking Your Most Impactful Self Through Assertiveness Mastery
All too often professionals sabotage their influence and fulfillment unable to express feelings, set boundaries, negotiate win-win deals, leverage authority or speak truth to power skillfully. They await others affirming their worth rather than boldly inspiring respect while rallying cooperation behind visions.
With the proper science-backed toolkit, anyone can cultivate assertive presence strategically earning allegiance critical for leadership impact. The fundamentals are learnable.
Costs of Under or Over-Assertion
Common behavioral gaps manifest in two extremes:
Under-Assertion
- Poor Self-Advocacy – Allowing others’ priorities to consistently override internal needs breeds resentment, stifles talent and caps leadership scope stuck in underutilization.
- Discounting Expertise – When insight gets dismissed failing to prominently project capabilities, staff suffer frustration while organizations waste intelligence losing competitive edge.
- Conflict Avoidance – Skipping tough conversations may seem peaceful temporarily but festering issues escalate tearing relationships when finally addressed or leading to sudden departures.
Over-Assertion
- Steamrolling Colleagues – Dominating discussions through interrupting or loudness signals disrespect for colleagues shutting down collaborations. Meetings turn counterproductive.
- Destructive Critique – Harshly attacking ideas or character insensitively kills psychological safety preventing innovative thinking. People disengage to avoid further wounds.
- Browbeating Teams – Barking directives fuels anxiety and hostility stifling development. Resentment simmers at being denied autonomy through high-pressure control tactics.
Without developing versatile behavioral repertoires matching situational needs, consequences multiply:
- Nice-nasty polarity erodes trust in peers struggling to discern authentic motives and temperaments behind mixed signals
- 18% of women voluntarily exiting despite high competence cite inability to influence and lead change driving change efforts
- Over 62% of disputes leading to severance tie back to unresolved tension from past unaddressed conflicts
- Colleagues rating higher in assertiveness get promoted over 71% more often
Elevating advocacy abilities pays dividends professionally and personally. The fundamentals apply universally.
Now Any Leader Can Excel Asserting Their Worth
The Assertiveness Mastery Course equips professionals to:
What Graduates Are Saying
“I shifted from passive aggressiveness to straight talk delivered tactfully behind closed doors. I gained immense respect from colleagues and my boss finally grasping my true talents.”
“Getting comfortable establishing boundaries in the moment firmly yet politely was freeing – no more enduring frustration that eventually erupted.”
“Owning my expertise with facts not bravado was key. I highlighted credentials briefly while focusing conversations on creative solutions. I became a magnet leader.”
Comprehensive Assertiveness Curriculum
Through an intensive curriculum, participants transform across:
Self-Advocacy Skills
- Internal Values Excavation – Uncover core priorities through assessments of peak energy activities, flow states and meaning. Assert needs rooted in authenticity.
- Imposter Syndrome Antidotes – Counter limiting self-beliefs through collecting external evidence validating capabilities, contributions and colleagues advocating your support.
Confidence Foundation
- Embodied Authority – Display leadership presence through body language, vocal resonance and space projection.
- Calibrated Boldness – Validate uncertainty judiciously showing you welcome being challenged. Champion solutions assertively.
Courageous Communication
- Truth Speaking – Frame constructive criticisms around mutual growth opportunities. Deliver with empathy, facts and solutions.
- Transformational No’s – Set clear boundaries diplomatically. Offer alternatives showing respect for asker’s position while clarifying yours.
Influential Persuasion
- Insight Selling – Ask discovery questions before asserting expertise to ignite interest and frame problems insightfully.
- Win-Win Negotiations – Unpack all constraints, priorities and options jointly before aligned solutioning. Lead collaboratively.
Resolute Resilience
- Bullish Mindset – Reframe intimidations, doubts and failures as growth fuel through gritty self-talk drawing on higher purpose.
- Stress Hardiness – Develop tenacity through managing energies between tense exchanges, seeking support and focusing on what you can control.
The course culminates by requiring participants to demonstrate total assertiveness mastery navigating a complex multiparty negotiation simulation.
Build your most impactful self by registering today!