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Authentic Assertiveness: Next level communication skills. (Udemy.com)

Increase your social skills and assertive communication, while you reduce your stress, fears, and other mental blocks.

Created by: TJ Guttormsen

Last updated November 2020

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What you will learn

  • How to be assertive in any situation.
  • How to inspire others to listen.
  • How to speak your mind.
  • How to get what you want.
  • How to communicate effectively.
  • How to overcome mental blocks and fear.
  • How to speak clearly and with proper volume.
  • How to be assertive in groups, with authority figures, and more.
  • 10+ assertiveness and communication techniques.
  • How to handle any disagreement and conflict.
  • How to understand other people's communication styles.
  • And more..

How it compares

Against the other 392 rated Udemy courses in Communication Skills on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.6 out of 5higher than 73% of them
  • Reviews685#201 of 393 by number of reviews
  • Length3.4 hourslonger than 70% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2020earlier than 87% of them

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Course Description

"I am truly grateful for this course and content. This gave me the information and instruction required to handle a variety of challenging situations assertively. I highly recommend this course. Thank you very much!" - 5-star rating from Margaret McIntosh, Udemy student.

"This course has had a positive impact on all my relationships. Thank you." - 5-star rating from Jessica Bailey, Udemy student.

Would you like to be able to speak your mind and ask for what you want in a way that is comfortable both for you and for others?

Would you like to be the kind of person that people listen to because they want to listen, and not because they’re forced to?

Or maybe you just want to learn a few techniques that will help you communicate more clearly and assertively - and make you more influential?

This course, filmed in a high-quality studio environment and taught by top-rated Udemy instructor TJ Guttormsen - an expert on communication with over a decade's worth of hands-on experience with clients from all over the world - will help you achieve all these things and more!


"Outstanding presentation of assertive soft skills! I have over 20 years of experience in the Aerospace industry and I wish we'd had a course like this available for anyone who wants it. Good skills in these areas can help everyone succeed. Thank you for putting this course together!" - 5-star rating from William McClelland, Udemy student.

"One of the best courses I have had the pleasure of taking here on Udemy. TJ's knowledge and understanding of assertiveness is impressive but what makes it even better are the practical examples and the clarity in which he explains each section. I have already started taking action! Highly recommended course for anyone who wants to be more assertive and confident in their personal and professional life. A*" - Janet, Udemy student.


Assertive communication is widely regarded to be the most effective style of communication.

It’s important for nearly all aspects of our lives. From friendships, relationships, and family, to work and success – if we are able to communicate assertively, we are much more likely to create the results that we want.


Since 2009, TJ Guttormsen has worked with people from all over the world to improve their communication skills. He has done over 100 national media appearances, published several books, written hundreds of articles, and taught seminars and courses to thousands of people from all walks of life, from over 135 countries.

His other courses on Udemy have several times been the highest-rated courses in their categories, and the positive feedback from students getting real-world results keep flowing in.

Now he has put together a comprehensive course on Authentic Assertiveness that will teach you how to communicate in such a way that it will inspire others to truly want to listen to you.

When you master authentic assertiveness you’ll be the kind of person who can comfortably ask for what you want, share your opinions, make decisions, take initiatives, and more – in ways that will make both you and the people you’re talking to feel good about it all.


"This is a comprehensive course that provides both the psychological background for assertiveness, along with easily understandable examples and exercises. Highly recommended!" - 5-star rating from Tor Anestad, Udemy student.

"This is one of the highest quality courses I've ever taken. The content is very well organized, clearly delivered and most importantly, concretely helpful and actionable. The strategies, techniques, and perspectives I learned in this course have helped me to transform my life in a very positive way. Interpersonal engagements that used to feel very confusing and disempowering are now opportunities for growth, empowerment and the creation of harmony. I struggled to a disabling degree with assertiveness before this course. So great was my struggle that I was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. Despite having a diagnosable communications related disability, this course has given me the tools to grow, even in the context of having challenges with certain sensory and neurological processing. That's a great feeling. I highly recommend this course." - 5-star rating from Twilah H, Udemy student.

Authentic Assertiveness.

Authentic Assertiveness is not your average assertiveness course. It's not about being the loudest or most insisting person in the room. It's not about having to always be in charge. It's not about using power to get your way.

Authentic Assertiveness is about being comfortable speaking your mind, asking for what you want, saying no, saying yes, taking initiatives, handling disagreements, setting boundaries, giving invitations - and all the other things that make our lives better.

It’s about communicating with others in a connected way which will make you stand out as not just assertive and influential – but also respectful and more socially intelligent than most.

In other words, people won't listen to you because you're loud, forceful, or domineering. They'll listen to you because you're connected with them and because they'll WANT to hear what you have to say.

They'll listen because you'll know how to skillfully share your thoughts, opinions, needs, and wants. They'll listen because they trust your judgment and respect your insights. They'll listen because they want your input - or because they want to help.


To help you achieve this, the course covers the psychology of assertiveness, how to create habits that will make assertiveness feel natural, conversational techniques that will help you handle a variety of situations, as well as how to deal with disagreements and conflicts in a productive and positive way.


So you see, this is not yet another quick-fix, fake-it-till-you-make-it course with a bunch of superficial advice that sounds good but works poorly. This course’s purpose is to help you become an authentically assertive person – inside and out.

And the best part about it?

You don’t have to become another person or act outside of your own values or ethics at all. Authentic assertiveness is all about learning how to be an assertive you.


So, if that sounds like something you might want to learn more about, sign up now and take your first step towards new and better social results.


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Instructor Details

TJ Guttormsen

TJ Guttormsen has worked with multi-million dollar international businesses, CEOs, award-winning musicians, Olympic athletes and people like you and me for over a decade - helping them improve their communication, social confidence, and performance.

He holds three university degrees in psychology and education and is a multiple-time published author - and here on Udemy, he shares some of his best work to date.

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Reviews

4.6

685 ratings on Udemy

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By Megan Hinds on 6/3/2024

Over the years I have been reading a lot on assertive communication, as the penny dropped one day that I had never been taught how to. This course has solidified my learning and I have already recommended this course to someone. I really liked TJ's style of teaching, it is very practical and he gives you lots of examples. TJ also opens up about his own personal experiences, where as some teachers on Udemy just talk about the course's content, which I find quite impersonal. The part on wanting people to like you/people-pleasing I found very powerful content.

By Debbra Guido on 3/16/2022

The information in this course will be extremely useful in my personal and professional life. Much of the information given is practical, and the instructor gives plenty of examples of the techniques. Of course the hard work is on the student to actually implement what was taught! I'm looking forward to taking more courses.

By Dorin on 2/14/2022

The course helped me with some thoretical information that I've never heard. 1. Speaking up in groups and how to start doing this. 2. Ask questions when you don't agree with someone and again, how to start doing this if you don't have courage. 3. Making decision - how important it is and why 4. How to deal with over-loaders and chronic interrupters. Even if I don't like to take courses online, this one really help me at this moment in life. I could see all my mistakes from the past.

By Twilah H on 9/23/2021

This is one of the highest quality courses I've ever taken. The content is very well organized, clearly delivered and most importantly, concretely helpful and actionable. The strategies, techniques, and perspectives I learned in this course have helped me to transform my life in a very positive way. Interpersonal engagements that used to feel very confusing and disempowering are now opportunities for growth, empowerment and the creation of harmony. I struggled to a disabling degree with assertiveness before this course. So great was my struggle that I was diagnosed as being on the autism spectrum. Despite having a diagnosable communications related disability, this course has given me the tools to grow, even in the context of having challenges with certain sensory and neurological processing. That's a great feeling. I highly recommend this course.

By Gabriel Cosmin Stoicescu on 3/14/2021

The course does contain practical and thoughtful advice on the topic of asertive communication. The instructor lead me think about the fact that the work and practice I put in the course is at least as important as the information inside it. Also, the instructor struck me as honest and authentic and respectful of his students in regards of them being responsible and genuinely working towards their improvement.

By Janet on 2/28/2021

One of the best courses I have had the pleasure of taking here on Udemy. TJ's knowledge and understanding of assertiveness is impressive but what makes it even better are the practical examples and the clarity in which he explains each section. I have already started taking action, and will be recommending this course to my to sister! Highly recommended course for anyone who wants to be more assertive and confident in their personal and professional life. A*

By Kimmarie Brown on 2/18/2021

T.J provides informative and practical solutions to communication obstacles. The exercises are easy to incorporate into everyday life. The only setback is the course seems to focus on those overcoming shyness. Being a historically aggressive communicator, I would have liked more guidance on toning down my communication. Also, visuals could enhance the course...perhaps some modeling of the techniques. Overall, the course is well worth it.

By Deepak Sahu on 1/13/2021

You have explained precisely about to communicate others in a assertive manner. So, if somebody else ask us about their needs and wants at the moment, sometimes we are not able to understand their needs. For example- In Office , This happen due to their level of communication as they use certain terms that we find it difficult to fulfil their need. What we can do in this situation?

By Oxana Lotter on 8/22/2020

It's ok. For some other reason it wasn't engaging. To much talking, not enough practicality.

By Moises Lorenzo León on 6/1/2020

The course is amazingly helpful. It contains a lot of information, backgrounds, explanations and examples about the common issues with communications and how to solve them. TJ explains the subject clearly and simple, and takes the necessary time to explain everything. The course covers a lot of topics to be studied and practiced, and it is necessary to go back and listen again to the lessons, but every time it seems that you learn something new. 100% recommended

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