Learning how to become assertive at work is crucial to anyone’s career. It can help you advance your career and achieve your professional goals. Assertiveness helps you share what you want, need and feel with respect and integrity.
What are 5 practical tips you can use to be more assertive at work?
1.Assertive body language. You increase your level of assertiveness by modeling the non verbal of assertive and confident people. Did you know assertiveness is a skill that can be activated on command if you know which switches to turn on?
Assertiveness nonverbal switches: Open your chest. Put your shoulders back. Imagine you are wearing a cape like Superman/Superwoman. Strong eye contact. Take space. Breathe deeply.
Try that right now. Use all the assertiveness switches above and ask yourself this key question here: “On a scale between 0 to 10, what’s my level of assertiveness?”.
You then do the exact opposite and you ask yourself the same question.
Never forget that you can tap into this assertiveness power when you use the assertiveness nonverbal switches.
2. Assertive mindset: Do you give yourself permission to be assertive? Do you think it’s rude to say no? What if the other person disagrees? What if…?
Let’s say you think that being assertive is rude. Your brain will prevent you from being assertive because it has the equation: More assertiveness = more rudeness. Which can make sense in your brain but it’s not the case if you can use communication techniques to communicate with respect and integrity.
To increase your assertiveness, you should audit your mindset when you think about assertiveness. A great exercise is to ask yourself this question: “When I think about assertiveness, I think about…”. You make a list of 10 associations. You then review them by asking yourself this question: “Which associations are helping me be more assertive and which aren’t”. You then have to show your brain that these negative associations are not true 100% of the time”. A belief is something your brain considers 100% true so if you show your brain that these negative associations are not true all the time, it will weaken the impact of these negative associations.
3. Assertive sentences: When you are assertive, you use communication techniques to express your needs, wants and feelings in a respectful way. You can use empathy sentences such as: “I understand your point of view/your situation”. That can help you create an emotional bridge between you and the other person which can help you communicate your desires.
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