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Improving one's assertiveness

  • 10-10-2015 05:16PM
    #1
    Young Blood
    Closed Accounts Posts: 393 ✭✭


    Say someone has zero confidence and can't assert themselves in social settings.

    Is there anything they can do to develop positive assertiveness?

    Would working in a call centre for example help?


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  • #2
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Yes, assertiveness training can help. The thing is to take it one step at a time. Being assertive in work doesn't always help socially as people take it on as a role, and hide behind that role.

    Assertiveness does help majorly with confidence. But a weekend course isn't half as good as a 10 week course! Practice is really important.


  • #3
    Labarbapostiza
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 963 ✭✭✭Labarbapostiza


    JuliusCaesar wrote: »
    But a weekend course isn't half as good as a 10 week course! Practice is really important.

    What kind of practice helped you?

    I know that might sound antagonistic....but I mean the question in good faith.

    Maybe, I should have re-formulated it as "What would you suggest as practice?"


  • #4
    JuliusCaesar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,887 ✭✭✭JuliusCaesar


    Labarbapostiza wrote: »
    What kind of practice helped you?

    Well, as Assertiveness is a training course, the exercises build up until bingo! you are assertive. There should be still a lot of books about it around, but as it's a practical skill, it's a bit like trying to learn to swim from a book, unless you get out and do the exercise.


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