Assertiveness Implies

• Honesty towards yourself and others.
• Straightforwardness in saying what you require or how you feel but not at the expense of others.
• Having self-confidence and being positive while still respecting the opinions of others.
• Rational and mature behaviour.
• The ability to negotiate and achieve a feasible compromise.
• Having respect for yourself and others.

Assertive behaviour is interactional because it implies an interaction between two or more persons involving:

• Requests (asking for those things that you want).
• Refusals (refusing what you do not want).
• Expressions of feelings (communicating positive and negative messages to others).
• No matter how self-assured you are, most of us wonder if we perhaps couldn’t be just a bit more assertive in certain situations.

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