Assertive Communication: Complete Course Collection (Udemy.com)

Communication Skills and Assertiveness Basics. Boost Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem. Improve your Social Skills.

THE ASSERTIVE WAY Collection includes 6 courses that used to be provided as stand-alone elements of Assertiveness Training. You can now access them all at once in this series.

Included:

• Assertive Communication: Build The Independent You

• Dealing With Criticism: The Assertive Way

• Delivering Constructive Criticism: The Assertive Way

• How to Set Boundaries: The Assertive Way

• 15 Assertive Rights and Principles Explained.

• Master Assertive Communication: 50 Real-Life Scenarios

ASSERTIVE COMMUNICATION: BUILD THE INDEPENDENT YOU

Communication Skills and Assertiveness Basics. Boost Self-Confidence and Self-Esteem. Improve your Social Skills.

Learn the most effective style of communication and become more independent in your thinking, your emotions, and your social interactions.

Start building the Independent You right now through Assertive Communication.

· Learn how to guide your thinking in a way that boosts your confidence and self-esteem and that allows you to regulate your emotions better

· Learn how to build healthier relationships

· Communicate your opinions openly

· Deal with criticism and conflict efficiently

· Say NO and create time for the goals that truly matter to you

Regain the confidence in your inner power to create the future you want.

Assertive Communication is one of the top skills that people want to learn how to master, due to its extensive applications in both personal and professional contexts. Assertiveness is the key toward an authentic and independent life.

Thoughts, emotions and behaviors that rely on the assertive principles allow you to break free from toxic contexts and focus on your own significant goals.

Learn how to activate The Assertive Style of Communication and you will be able to approach personal and professional contexts in a confident, goal-oriented manner.

Content and Overview

This course is suitable for anyone who would like to learn how to activate The Assertive Style of Communication in order to increase their cognitive, emotional and relational independence.

While considering the multi-dimensional aspect of Assertiveness, the course will simultaneously address thinking patterns, the understanding of how these patterns shape our emotions and ultimately, how to project these inner events into observable behaviors, such as verbal and non-verbal communication and the overall management of social relationships.

We will first take a look at what Assertiveness is, the reasons why you should learn this complex skill, its benefits and when to use it.

Then we will zoom in into each of the five communication styles, so that you will be able to identify them in yourself and others.

We will then address the Assertive Rights or Assertive Principles and that will mark the passage to the practical part of the course.

You will learn how to identify and eliminate the main cognitive distortions and how thoughts and emotions are linked in the assertive realm.

Then we will get to the really interesting part, the actual techniques and strategies of the Assertive Style of Communication.

You will learn how to communicate in a more authentic and confident manner, how to efficiently deal with criticism and conflict, how to provide constructive feedback and how to make sure that your verbal message matches the non-verbal one.

And then you’ll be ready to go. The foundation for the Independent you would have been laid and you will have the main skills to start creating the life you want.

DEALING WITH CRITICISM: THE ASSERTIVE WAY

Communication Skills and Assertiveness Strategy. Emotional Intelligence. Social Skills. Self-confidence and Self-esteem.

Learn how to transform criticism into opportunity and protect your self-confidence and self-esteem levels.

Manage Criticism Effectively through this Assertive Communication Strategy.

· Learn how to think about criticism in a way that protects your self-esteem and confidence levels and that allows you to regulate your emotional responses better

· Learn how to analyze critical messages and discover their growth potential

· Silence the critical noise and focus on the goals that truly matter to you

· Respond to criticism efficiently and enjoy healthier relationships

Unlock the mindset that allows you to live a more authentic, independent and satisfying life.

Largely accepted as the most efficient mindset and communication style, Assertiveness provides the best guidelines we know for dealing with most personal and professional contexts. Management of criticism makes no exception.

The 3-Stage Assertive Strategy exclusively presented in this course addresses the entire process, from thoughts to emotions to behaviors, and aims at providing a framework in which the individual thrives and transforms negative feedback into a powerful self-development tool.

Content and Overview

This course is suitable for anyone who would like to learn how to efficiently deal with Criticism, protect their self-confidence and self-esteem levels and discover the growth potential hidden in negative feedback.

Drawing on the multi-dimensional character of Assertiveness, the course addresses the activation of the assertive traits on three main levels: cognitive, emotional and behavioral, thus creating an extended framework for understanding, analyzing and responding to criticism.

The course is divided in two parts: An introductory, theoretical segment, in which we will take a close look at what criticism is, what personal and social roles does it hold in our lives, the forms in which it gets delivered to us and what efficient and inefficient reactions to criticism look like. The second part is a more practical one and it is where you will discover, step-by-step, The Assertive Strategy For Dealing With Criticism.

The Assertive Strategy For Dealing With Criticism includes three Stages -

The Attitude toward Criticism, Analyzing The Critical Message and Responding to Criticism, each of them comprising more steps to help create and activate the cognitive, emotional or behavioral traits that generate the most efficient responses to negative feedback.

Three specific Assertive Communication Techniques for dealing with justified and unjustified criticism are provided at the end of the course.