How to Be More Assertive
Learn how to become more confident and comfortable with personal assertiveness, how to cope with other people's negativity and how to respond when someone else is being overbearing or aggressive towards you.
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Description
Course fee
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school. We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course.
About the course
Join Faye Lawand to learn how to become more confident and comfortable with personal assertiveness, how to cope with other people's negativity and how to respond when someone else is being overbearing or aggressive towards you.
During the course you will:
- Learn that it's okay to speak up and to stand up for what you believe
- Learn techniques to confidently express your opinions & needs
- Learn to say 'no' without being rude or seeming disinterested
- Recognise that you are important and that your opinions are valid and worthy of consideration
- Be able to recognise and deal with difficult behaviours in other people
What to bring
Your lunch and waterbottle. Bring a pen and paper for notetaking.
About your tutor, Faye
Faye Lawand is on a mission to change the attitudes of burnout professionals around managing stress. She is known as NZ's Trusted Internal Conflict Resolution Expert for the busy professional. She's an international speaker, global citizen, world-class trainer and leading expert in the field of practical solutions for transforming stress.
