Assertiveness Training for Women in Business Seminar # 2528

Strengthen your leadership ability and image by learning essential assertiveness skills for women.

Now and then, you’re going to overreact or underreact. You’ll blurt out something that you wish you hadn’t…hurt someone whose opinion you value. The person with good assertiveness skills usually sends the right signals and gets the right responses. With assertiveness training, women can learn how to better handle just about any situation that comes up—without seeming either shy or pushy. Assertiveness skills for women are vital for getting things done, getting what you want and commanding respect.

Here is assertiveness training for women at its best. As you learn, practice and refine fundamental assertiveness skills at AMA’s Assertiveness Training for Women in Business, you’ll also share your concerns with other women executives… in a comfortable and supportive learning environment.

How You Will Benefit

• Learn assertiveness skills for women to apply in meetings and predominately male environments
  
• Become comfortable in your own skin
  
• Develop an action plan based on what you learned
  
• Deal with conflicts confronting women
  
• Recognize your strengths and weaknesses
  
• Practice assertive behaviors in challenging situations
  
• Overcome obstacles to assertiveness skills for women
  
• Build and project a positive self-image
  
• Assess your stress and adopt assertive techniques to help manage stress
  
• Develop an assertive action plan
  
• Use assertive communication techniques: verbal, nonverbal and assertive listening

What You Will Cover

Assessing Yourself

• Identify and acknowledge your own strengths
• Outline the conflicting roles and know how to reduce role conflict

Assertiveness Skills for Women—Techniques and Practices

• Define and distinguish between the basic response styles of passive, assertive and aggressive
• Avoid being manipulated by others

Key Communication Skills Necessary in Assertiveness Training for Women

• Use a successful formula for assertion
• Say “no” and survive
• Understand assertive techniques of fogging, broken record, negative assertion, negative inquiry and compromise
• Understand the differences between how women and men communicate
• Send harmonious messages
• Listen assertively

Negotiation

• Identify assumptions about negotiation and how these impact abilities
• Benefit from suggestions for negotiating more effectively
• Develop a personal negotiation plan/skills

Overcoming Obstacles to Achieve the Desired Personal and Professional Balance

• Pinpoint your internal obstacles to assertiveness and practice control strategies
• Discuss self-reliance and describe special support systems
• Recognize your specific anger buttons and how to deal with them productively
• Demonstrate techniques for preventing and coping with stress
• Learn how to incorporate the DOCS model to streamline your time

Who Should Attend

AMA's Assertiveness Training for Women in business is designed for women, individual contributors, project managers and team leaders who want to build on their strengths, improve their skills in interpersonal relations, conflict resolution and relate to people at all organizational levels.

This Seminar Features Blended Learning

AMA Blended Learning combines instructor-led training with online pre- and post-seminar assessments, tune-up courses and other resources to maximize your training goals. Through a blend of proven instructor-led seminars and powerful online technology, AMA Blended Learning provides a compelling and more comprehensive experience for the learner—producing a greater return-on-investment for the employer and the seminar participant.

Additional Information

• Extended Seminar Description
• Faculty Info
• Seminar Hours
• Travel and Accommodations
• Cancellation Policy
• Federal Government Employee Discounts
• On-Site Delivery

Registration Fee

3 days / 1.8 CEUs
Nonmembers $2,095 / AMA Members $1,895 / GSA $1,623

Schedule

We have 22 scheduled sessions located nationwide starting between December 3, 2008 and August 17, 2009.

• Call 1-877-566-9441 for an AMA Training Consultant.
• E-mail customerservice@amanet.org
• Fax AMA Text Registration Form
• Mail AMA Text Registration Form