Center for Management Development
W. Frank Barton School of Business - Wichita State University
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Now In: June 2012 → Assertiveness Training for Women: Increasing Your Influence & Credibility
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BENEFITS:
This seminar offers the opportunity to assess your own assertiveness and discover practical ways for developing techniques of assertive communication. By gaining self-knowledge and self-confidence, you can learn to be a more assertive communicator making your work life more enjoyable, productive and rewarding.
OUTLINE:
- Women's Tradition of Non-Assertiveness
- Socialization
- The pitfalls of women's communication rituals
- Expectations, images and fears
- What Is Assertive Behavior?
- Identifying your place on the assertiveness continuum
- Describing assertive, aggressive and unassertive behavior
- Appropriate assertiveness
- What's so good about being assertive?
- Your Communication Image
- Communication mirror: assessing your style
- What do your nonverbal messages say?
- Tuning your voice
- Blending voice, eye contact and posture to communicate confidence
- Learning to Be an Assertive Communicator
- Harness the word power
- Develop a natural style of direct, honest and spontaneous assertion
- Use positive assertion to negotiate, influence and build win-win relationships
- Give feedback and manage conflict without arousing resentment
- Guidelines for receiving feedback
- How to say "no" to unreasonable requests without offending or feeling guilty
- Making your point without appearing "pushy"
Putting It All Together with Skill Practice Activities
LOCATION:
Assertiveness Training for Women: Increasing Your Influence & Credibility will be held in the CMD Training Center in the Woodman Alumni Building on the Wichita State University campus in Wichita, Kansas.
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