Assertiveness and Self-Confidence

‘’Assertiveness and Self-Confidence’’

Do you feel like you aren’t worthy and or you don’t know how to assess your self-worth? It could be that you lack Self- Confidence and Assertiveness. These two skills are crucial to the victory in your personal and professional lives; without them, life can be isolated and painful.               ‘’Assertiveness and Self-Confidence’’

Self-confidence plays a significant role in our everyday lives. Having confidence allows us to set and influence our goals. When a someone is confident, it provides stability when faced with a challenge and it helps them overcome difficulties. It is a required skill to have in our personal and professional lives, as without it one would not be successful in either. Having Self-Confidence gives us the aptitude to stand up to face our challenges and to pick ourselves up when we fall.

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Characteristics of a Self-Confident human:

1.     They have a solid sense of self-worth.

2.     They believe in their skills to make strong and sound judgments.

3.     They have freedom from doubt.  (They believe they can make an alteration, change a situation, they are more likely to succeed.)

4.     Self-Confident persons can control their thoughts and emotions; and can influence others.

5.     Self-Confident persons are more prepared to tackle everyday challenges and recover from setbacks. This leads to more optimism and life gratification.

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Assertive performance is a learned skill, and it is situational.  There are several different types of Assertive behavior, how you respond depends on the situation. Assertive behavior involves three groupings of skills:

1.     Self-affirmation

2.     The skill to recognize and express positive feelings

3.     The skill to recognize and express negative feelings

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What are the characteristics of an assertive human?

1.     Confident and direct in commerce with others.

2.     They communicate in fairness and equality based on a positive sense of admiration for themselves and others.

3.     They can communicate directly based on a person’s needs, wants, and opinions without punishing, threatening, or putting down another human.

4.     They stand up for a person’s legitimate rights – without violating the rights of others or being overly dreadful in the process.

Self-Confidence and Assertiveness relays wonderful on communication. Effective communication is essential in personal and professional social skills. There are wonderful techniques in to communicating effectively. The first rule to communicating is to understand, that there is a alteration between Hearing and Listening.

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Hearing is the act of observing sound by the ear; and Listening is somewhat that one consciously chooses to do. Listening needs concentration so that the brain processes meaning from words and sentences. Unlike hearing, listening skills can be sophisticated and learned. The art of active listening allows you to completely receive a message from another person. Active listening permits you to be sensitive to the multiple dimensions of communication. They are:

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The occasion for the communication: What is the reason why the human is communicating with me now?

The length of the communication: What can the length of the message tell me about its value?

The words chosen: Is the note being made formally? Is it with aloofness or slang?

The volume and pace: What clues do the loudness and rapidity give me?

The Pauses and Hesitations: How do these enhance or diminish from the message?

 Here are some instructions to have when you are actively listening to a conversation:

Open Questions

Open questions stimulate thinking and discussion or responses including views or feelings. They pass controller of the conversation to the respondent. Leading words in open questions contain: Why, what, or how.

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Clarifying Questions

A clarifying question assistance to remove ambiguity, elicits additional detail, and guides the answer to a question.

Closed Questions

Closed questions usually necessitate a one-word answer, and effectively shut off discussion. Closed questions deliver facts, allow the questioner to maintain control of the conversation, and are easy to answer.

Assertiveness and Self-Confidence