There is one skill that can help you effectively stand up to the bossy co-worker, an overbearing manager or a difficult team. It can also help your self-esteem and positively impact both personal ...

Proper assertiveness statements, part of a broader class of assertive communication techniques, come in handy across situations, and along with the gentle limit-setting of a gracefully delivered no, ...

You don’t want to fight. You don’t want to be hassled. You don’t want to disappoint them. It’s easier to just nod and give them what they want. But later you feel frustrated, trapped and depressed ...

Assertiveness is a popular term, and many people say they want more of it. Any self-help relationship book would be incomplete without advising the reader to be more assertive. To better understand ...

Firmness can co-exist with kindness. When you stop confusing being 'nice' with being passive, you learn that true ...

When people describe me, assertive is the last word they use. This has cost me a lot, both professionally and personally, because of missed opportunities. But can we learn to be more assertive? And ...

Making decisions isn’t one of my strengths. My default social response has always been to ‘go with the flow’. Laidback and easygoing are descriptors that repeatedly crop up in my performance reviews ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Design by Evelyn Mousigian. Everyone is familiar with the concept of assertiveness: the sweet spot ...

Here you’ll find an evolving list of resources and tools for implementing Assertive Community Treatment (ACT), the evidence-based practice, recommended by consultants and trainers at the Center for ...

How easy—or difficult—is it for you to talk about sex? Could you start a conversation about your willingness to have sex (or not), or about birth control? And could you initiate that conversation in ...