Assertiveness Training: Gain Respect and Personal Power (Udemy.com)
Learn to assert yourself to achieve your dreams and your desires. Live a richer, more confident, more fulfilling life.
Created by: Michele Poff, PhD
Last updated January 2020
What you will learn
- Develop assertive communication skills
- Articulate characteristics of assertive people
- Discern differences between assertive, aggressive, and passive communication
- Focus on individual characteristics for overall assertive communication development
- Draw from a variety of assertive phrases
- Articulate nonverbal communication cues of assertive people
- Internalize assertive practices
- Incorporate more assertive communication into your daily life
- Improve communication competence
- Become more assertive
How it compares
Against the other 392 rated Udemy courses in Communication Skills on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.2 out of 5higher than 6% of them
- Reviews133#346 of 393 by number of reviews
- Length0.9 hoursshorter than 85% of them
- Last updatedJanuary 2020earlier than 91% of them
Course Description
Assertive people ask for what they want and don’t let others either intimidate them or enrage them. They speak up to express their needs and desires. They hold true to their internal power and the little voice inside that asks to be heard. They speak calmly and diplomatically, carefully and firmly, without offending reasonable people. They comfortably say “no” when they need to, without belittling or insulting others.
Assertive people are neither passive nor aggressive. Passive people know they need assertiveness training to find their voice and not allow others to take advantage of them or dismiss them. They need help finding ways to stand up for themselves and be heard!
Aggressive people don’t usually think they need assertiveness training because they believe they get their needs met just fine. The thing is, aggressive people roll over others, bullying them into submission. Even if they cover their aggression with humor, they bully others without concern for other people’s feelings or needs. This isn’t okay either. Aggressive people need help finding ways to be more respectful of others during moments of conflict, and to behave appropriately.
This course helps both passive people and aggressive people find their voice within the appropriate expressions of assertiveness. It helps passive people find the strength to speak up, and it helps aggressive people stop bullying.
The material for this course comes entirely from science. Investigators and researchers have spent their lives examining assertive communication and how it differs from both passive and aggressive communication. That’s one thing that makes this course different from the others out there. It’s not about the instructor’s individual perspectives at all, but tested and proven strategies and techniques.
Another thing that sets this course apart from other assertiveness courses is that we are not interested in why people are passive or aggressive at all. In fact, communication research says that for some people these characteristics are in their DNA while for others it’s in their conditioning. We simply don’t care about that. We only care about the communication behaviors that make assertiveness happen. We start with definitions about assertive communication and how it differs from passive and aggressive communication, then work through many ways that assertiveness can show in your communication behaviors. Exercises help reinforce your learning and give you practice for when certain situations arise in your real life. Quizzes make sure you’re following along properly.
So stop getting walked on, and stop walking on people to get your way! Learn assertive communication and improve your own well-being and communication appropriateness. Just a couple of hours can change your life for the better. Becoming more assertive is just a matter of learning what that looks like. This course shows you how!
Enroll now and start today!
Instructor Details
- 4.2 Rating
133 Reviews
Michele Poff, PhD
Hi! I'm Dr. Michele Poff. I have a PhD in Communication (University of Washington, Seattle), an MA in Applied Linguistics, and a BA in English (University of California, Berkeley). I've taught university courses in communication and English language for 14 years.
I'm so pleased to have discovered Udemy! This platform allows me to fulfill a lifelong dream of mine, which is to bring the knowledge I've acquired in so many years of university education to people outside of my university courses. Now thanks to Udemy, I can help all kinds of people all over the world who want to improve their lives.
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Reviews
By C Mars on 5/23/2022
Good mix of theory with practical application, felt that it was a good introduction to the subject of Assertive Communication. I liked that the course was concise, gave real world tips and phrases. I will go through it again after trying out some of the ideas.
By Beth Tyler on 8/8/2021
Great tips. I wish I could share the course with some aggressive communicators I know. But that would be passive, wouldn't it? ;) Wonderful value, and I'll review the downloads regularly for a long time until it sinks in.
By Rachel Harvey on 7/5/2020
It has definitely improved my daughter's assertiveness so far, and she is already more confident in speaking up for herself. I feel that the skills she has learned from this course will stay with her for life. She believes it would be appropriate to rate this course 5 stars.
By Dawn Andrew on 6/17/2020
Yes, I learned the difference between being passive, aggressive and assertive. As someone passive, I learned to stand up for myself more and to see myself as equal to others and that my needs and wishes matter. Thank you!
By Andrei Plop on 2/24/2020
It should be labelled "Assertiveness Level 1", as it is rather basic, both in its content and in its format. The trainer certainly has a lot of knowledge to share, however she must have decided that the rest was worth of a more advanced / expensive course.
By Janice L. Jepsen on 8/1/2019
I am beginning to see what assertiveness encompasses. I still think I need more information to completely internalize the information and be able to use it on a day to day basis.
By David Nibley on 1/23/2019
Very simplistic. It would be nice to have something more dynamic in an online course.
By Hugh Taylor on 1/2/2019
This course was helpful to me. It stimulated my thinking about being a passive communicator and offered a number of approaches to improving my communications skills. I think, for the scope of the course, it was good. The topic that needs more attention, perhaps not possible within short a narrow presentation, is the serious issue of causes of passive communication style and the related reluctance to engage in assertive behavior.
By Carrie J. Miller-DeBoer on 6/11/2017
This course is based in communication research and focuses on applicable communication techniques to improve assertiveness. It is very practical in terms of giving immediate solutions/suggestions to use in everyday scenarios. The instructor is professional and responsive, answering student questions quickly and thoroughly.
By Will Evans on 2/25/2017
I found the course informative and engaging. There were a lot of good tips. It's a matter of getting out and trying to practice and get used to being assertive, especially if you've lived your entire life as a passive person. I wonder if there is a way to include a simulated conversation to practice being assertive.
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