Assertiveness – Equal Communication

Dialogues with mutual respect and understanding

Do you manage to say what you mean without offending others?

Do you get your wishes and your messages through, without offending your co-workers or do you, on the other hand, give up too easily? Are you able to stand by your demands or disagreements while staying attentive and at eye level?

On the “Assertion” course, your ability to communicate will receive a quantum lift. Not only will you be given a great toolbox – you will also be guided through a process that will make it clear to you, what your strengths are, and where and how it can be advantageous for you to train yourself.

Participants
“Assertion” is aimed at anyone who wishes to stand forward with personal assertiveness as clearly as possible. You wish to be perceived as someone, with whom people know where they stand – and who, at the same time, is not afraid to take on a dialogue.

The course is either for those who feel humble or reserved – you may not be saying what you mean or you never get to share your words of wisdom – or for those who are very expressive and dominating.

It is important that you are active on the course and you must be willing to work with yourself.

Main reasons to choose this course

·You have difficulty expressing your opinions or good ideas – difficulty saying your piece

·You have difficulty handling certain situations or people; particularly very “strong”, aggressive or dominating people

·You feel a need to share your opinion – have more influence at meetings and in the daily cooperation at work or in other connections

·You feel inhibited in social situations – difficulty with small talk, it feels complicated to approach other people

·You find it difficult to relax socially.

Benefit

Through the “Assertion” course you will gain strength in various areas: You will get better at communicating clearly and precisely with personal emphasis. You will learn to ask for what you need and to say no when appropriate. You will also be trained in handling conflicts in a way that prevents both you and the other party from losing or getting angry.

In short, you will become better at:

·Cooperating and avoiding conflicts

·Handling pressure and difficult conversations

·Reading other people’s body language and actively using your own

·Setting your boundaries and sticking to something when you really mean it

·Acknowledging and giving constructive feedback

·Receiving feedback – and acknowledgement

·Handling stress

Course content and form

To best help and strengthen you, we request that you fill out and return a questionnaire that describes your wishes and your prerequisites prior to the course. The course itself will alternate between theories and practice – between introductory presentations, demonstrations, exercises and perceptive observations.

You will be spending quite a bit of time with your work group where one of the facilitators will participate as a coach and a facilitator. In this connection, you will be contributing a lot yourself. In return, you will receive proper and competent focus on your very own personal development patterns and the challenges you are facing in your day-to-day work. In other words, your way of communicating will be constructively scrutinized – all of it taking place in a comfortable atmosphere that also brings out smiles.

Together with the two facilitators, you will experience a varied and very attentive learning method that combines theories on assertion with plenty of individual training, personal involvement, coaching and an opportunity to cross boundaries and see new possibilities.

Participants particularly like

·The training groups – the reflecting teams. The participants benefit greatly from being at the centre of the stage and from being coached

·The benefit from attending with the other participants and the fact that they see/experience the problem areas of others

·Getting closer to themselves

·The fact that the challenges and the problem areas of the participants are the foundation for the course

·The interaction with the other participants – the feeling that “I’m not alone with my problems”.

Facilitators

On the “Assertion” course you will be taught by two of the following 3 facilitators, who each have a solid foundation within communication and personal development. You will either meet Business Psychology Consultant Carl Christian Larsen, Consultant Pia Boldt or Master of Psychology Timo Bohni Nielsen.

The price includes

Prior to the course:

An invitation to a free two-hour meeting about “Good Learning”

A questionnaire

During the course:

3 days of instruction

2 facilitators

2 nights of accommodation

All meals

A maximum of 16 participants

A binder containing the course material and a log for your personal notes

A training group with a maximum of 8 participants and 1 facilitator

Literature: ”Say What You Mean ”by Jan Johansen and Niels Toft

A practice-oriented course, based on your own problem areas