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Assertiveness Training for Managers

Learn how to channel assertiveness skills to interact more effectively with people throughout your organization.

Mastering assertiveness skills can do a lot more than just help win arguments. If you want your managers to enhance their leadership stature and persuade others to help reach their goals, Assertiveness Training for Managers is an important first step. Assertiveness Training for Managers gives your managers the opportunity to learn how their behavior style impacts their overall performance as a manager. They’ll take stock of their current assertiveness skills and learn how they can improve them for a more effective approach. Using the behavior modeling approach toward assertiveness training, this seminar teaches managers how to employ assertiveness skills to take control of a situation without alienating others.

Seminar Number: 02527

4.8
(93 reviews)
  • Live Online
  • At Your Company Location

Course Scheduling & Pricing

Who Should Attend

Experienced managers and seasoned professionals with four or more years of experience who want to build their strengths, resolve conflicts smoothly and exercise greater influence on others.

  •   Live Online3 Day(s)
    1.8 CEU, 21 CPE, 18 PMU
 

Mastering assertiveness skills can do a lot more than just help win arguments. If you want your managers to enhance their leadership stature and persuade others to help reach their goals, Assertiveness Training for Managers is an important first step.

Assertiveness Training for Managers gives your managers the opportunity to learn how their behavior style impacts their overall performance as a manager. They’ll take stock of their current assertiveness skills and learn how they can improve them for a more effective approach. Using the behavior modeling approach toward assertiveness training, this seminar teaches managers how to employ assertiveness skills to take control of a situation without alienating others.

  • Improve communication by using assertive-responsive skills
  • Acquire a more polished and powerful communication style and let your leadership ability emerge
  • Tap other people’s resources to get the job done
  • Empower yourself and your staff
  • Exercise greater influence on others
  • How your perceptions determine your reactions
  • Operating consciously vs. unconsciously
  • Guidelines for achieving your objectives through assertive-responsive behavior
  • Developing your own self-improvement plan
  • Using assertive-responsive techniques to identify what you want—and then go after it

Learning Objectives

  • Tune-In to Thoughts and Feelings and Use Them as a Resource
  • Grow Conscious of Behavior and Make Appropriate Choices
  • Gain Insight into the Impressions You Make

Conscious Communication

  • Describe Examples of Conscious and Unconscious Communication
  • Explain the Thoughts-Feelings-Behaviors Model and Its Importance for Understanding and Controlling Your Communication
  • Define Beliefs and  Describe Their Role in Your Communication
  • List the Factors That Can Help You Become a Flexible Communicator, Responding Appropriately to Different Situations

The ASSERTIVE/RESPONSIVE Model

  • List the Four Quadrants in the ASSERTIVE/RESPONSIVE Model and Describe Their Corresponding Behaviors and Attitudes
  • Explain the Human Needs and Beliefs That Drive Individuals into One Mode of Behavior or Another

Trying on the Model

  • Identify Statements as ASSERTIVE, RESPONSIVE, AGGRESSIVE or NON-ASSERTIVE as Well as Those That Erode Self-Esteem
  • Formulate Your Own Assertive and Responsive Statements Using Each Skill Discussed, and Respond Appropriately to the Statements of Other Participants
  • Employ These Communication Strategies to Reach Consensus in a Team
  • Use a Positive Feedback Discipline in Your Teamwork

ASSERTIVE/RESPONSIVE Skill Building

  • More Complex Content
  • More Complex Team Challenges

Listening Responsively

  • Use Your Assertive Skills to Clearly Stake Out a Position Without Becoming Aggressive
  • Explore Another Person’s Position and Demonstrate Complete Understanding of the Opposing View

Emotions and Conflict

  • Identify Your Own Emotional Triggers and Better Recognize Those of Others
  • Describe Your “Personal Zone of Control”
  • Be Prepared to Manage Conflict
    • Resolving it where cooperation is present and emotions are under control
    • Lowering the emotional temperature where necessary and possible
    • Deciding with confidence to disengage when it is not possible to resolve or deescalate conflict

Communication Styles

  • Analyze a Conversation, Characterize the Statements in It, and Draw Conclusions About the Communication Style Demonstrated
  • Identify the Styles of Others

Your Action Plan

  • Prepare a Plan for Improvement Back on the Job

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View a Sample of Our Reviews

4.8

93 reviews

 
I appreciated the small class size, which made the experience more intimate and focused on our specific needs/situations. The instructor was very engaging and practiced the excellent communication skills that she taught us. Every leader would benefit from this training.
5
   
The training did a great job taking on real-world issues in management communications. The curriculum was good, but the best part of the class was the ability to discuss similar situations and solutions with the other class members. Their feedback and advice was invaluable and something I will use immediately back at my workplace. Our instructor was very good at letting the class work on ideas outside the curriculum, but then bringing the focus back on the tools and processes that we could take back and use.
5
   
Training included useful scenarios and was supplemented with helpful outside resources including instructor anecdotes and videos.
5
   
This course was well designed, managed and presented. The small class size (there were only 6 of us), allowed for a lot of good interaction as well as opportunities to learn individual styles and ultimately problem solve to a level that benefitted each participant. Our course administrator had significant relevant experience and was a great resource from start to finish.
4
   
This class gave many practical tools and insights to help me be more precise and effective in my communication. The emphasis on listening, empathy, self-awareness, and self-control was invaluable. Not only can they help me be a more effective leader, they can help me aim at becoming a better person overall. The exercises made me realize new strengths and weaknesses about myself; what I do well and what I can improve on. A class that can invite you to improve as a professional and individual outside of work is worth every minute.
5
   

This course is valid for 18 PMUs.
12 Professional Effectiveness [PE]
6 Relationship Management [RM]

 

American Management Association is accredited by the International Accreditors for Continuing Education and Training (IACET) and is accredited to issue the IACET CEU.

 

American Management Association is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org. For additional information or for more information regarding administrative policies such as complaints and refunds, please contact Martha Leon at 212-903-8173.

Recommended CPE Credit: 21 hours/Intermediate
Prerequisites: Experienced managers and seasoned professionals with four or more years of experience
Advance Preparation: None
Delivery Method: Group Live/Group Internet Based
Field of Study: Non-Technical – Communication & Marketing, Personal Development

 

Live Online Schedule

5 Sessions Available

2795.00 $
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