Part 1
What it means to be assertive
âAction springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.â
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In Part 1 we look at what it means to be assertive and what the alternatives are. You will learn why you might find it difficult to be assertive and what will help to make it easier to be assertive. You will see that changing your behaviour and opting to be assertive in every situation is not the only way forward. Instead, the emphasis is on choosing to be assertive â or not.
First you have to learn how to be assertive â then you will be confident that you are making a choice and that you are not just avoiding confrontations because you are afraid. ...
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