--- title: Get Assertive description: Master assertiveness techniques for confidence and power. Learn verbal skills, handle criticism, and exhibit new confidence. image: https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Communication.png --- [Home](https://aspire.loyola.edu/?hsLang=en) [Categories](https://aspire.loyola.edu/products?hsLang=en) Personal Development [Get Assertive](https://aspire.loyola.edu/products/2390383405#) ![product_image](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Communication.png) # Get Assertive #### $199.00 Start Today! [Add to cart](https://aspire-cart.loyola.edu/simple_order?catalogid=TC_E2G_A_Get_Asse&return=https%3A%2F%2Faspire.loyola.edu) #### [ Professional Credits: ](https://aspire.loyola.edu/credit_terminology?hsLang=en) CEU: 2.4 #### $199.00 Start Today! [Add to cart](https://aspire-cart.loyola.edu/simple_order?catalogid=TC_E2G_A_Get_Asse&return=https%3A%2F%2Faspire.loyola.edu) ![](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Completion.png) Completion Time 24 hours ![](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Access%20time.png) Access Time 42 Days ![](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Outcome.png) Outcome Individual Skill Course ![](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Language.png) Language English ![](https://aspire.loyola.edu/hubfs/ASPIRE%20Assets/Icons/Training%20level.png) Training Level Beginner #### Delivery Information: Online Asynchronous Self-paced #### Description Are you tired of being intimidated and treated badly by others? Learn specific techniques to become more assertive in all parts of your life. Discover how people manipulate you and how you submit to being a victim. Understand the difference between passive, aggressive, and assertive behaviors, and see how inner dialogues keep people acting in passive ways. Explore ways to change your inner dialogue, such as using affirmations and visualization, creating new labels for yourself and others, and keeping a journal. Do you think you speak non-assertively? If so, master the skills that will empower you to talk in an assertive manner, including specific verbal techniques and phrases for a variety of situations. Anger and criticism from others are difficult to deal with, so you will get many tips on how to handle these. Because your body can reflect an inner uncertainty, you will learn how to use facial expressions, eye contact, gestures, and your voice to reinforce the assertive statements you're making. You teach people how to treat you through your behaviors as well as your words, and this training course will help you understand which behaviors to use with others so they perceive you as being assertive. When you begin to exhibit your new confidence in relationships, people will counter in various ways. You will learn how to stand firm in the face of this resistance. Get the assertiveness training you need in order to be more confident and powerful with family members, friends, bosses, co-workers, professionals, service people, and even total strangers. It's your turn to speak up! #### Learning Outcomes What you will learn: - Understand the difference between passive, aggressive and assertive attitudes, gestures and phrases - Learn to recognize ways you lose power and discover simple adjustments to the way you say things - Learn to deal assertively with people who criticize or try to manipulate you - Discover the importance of eye contact, facial expressions, voice, body posture, gait, and clothes to project a more assertive personality - Learn ways to be assertive in all types of situations whether it is family, social, or everyday life situations - Learn how to give and receive compliments and discover times when it is best not to be assertive How you will benefit: - Gain insight in learning about how not being assertive can have surprising consequences in all areas of your life - Deal effectively with people who are angry or criticizing you - Create an assertive body language - Learn to treat people in an assertive but loving manner - Gain respect and a positive self image #### Requirements ** ##### Technology Requirements Hardware Requirements: This course can be taken on either a PC, Mac, or Chromebook. Software Requirements: Software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins. - PC: Windows 8 or later. - Mac: macOS 10.6 or later. - Browser: The latest version of Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox are preferred. Microsoft Edge and Safari are also compatible. Cookies and JavaScript must be enabled - The latest Adobe Reader/Acrobat Reader ( free download available at https://get.adobe.com/reader/ ) - Any modern Office suite: Microsoft Office, Apple iWork, OpenOffice, or LibreOffice Other: - Reliable internet connection. Broadband cable or highspeed DSL is recommended for optimal experience. - E-mail account (to be able to register and to receive e-mail from the course system regarding registration, course status, etc.) #### Reviews ** "Great course. I really learned a lot about myself, family and others. I learned many life lessons about becoming assertive with family, friends,and on the job. I really appreciate the information and I am applying it with great success to my life. I strongly recommend this class to anyone but especially to women of all ages. It's never too late to learn new tricks." "I have learned a lot from taking this course. I find myself becoming more assertive in my daily life. Thanks to this course, I feel that I am on the way to becoming a more confident person!" "What an intense course! Everytime I reread the different lessons I end up highlighting something I missed before. I have made the determination to use what I have learned from Get Assertive in my everyday life. I wish I had had the opportunity to have taken this course forty years ago when I was in my twenties. It would have made positive changes in my relationships with family and friends. Vivian, thank you for showing me how to get more enjoyment out of life." #### Enroll My Team ** Are you looking to enroll your team in this training Course? 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