#276 How to increase your assertiveness

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Making our work and our career work for us takes self awareness and assertiveness, skills we can all develop but ones that aren't always easy to do! This week, Helen and Sarah taking the skill of assertiveness and make it as simple and practical as possible to take action. They explore the difference between assertiveness and aggression, how to be adaptively assertively and have to practice your assertive skills. Ways to learn more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/podmail 2. Join the live PodPlus conversation on 28/04/22 at 9am https://www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus 3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' For questions, feedback or just to say hello, you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah.
0:04.0	And I'm Helen.
0:05.0	And this is a squiggly careers podcast where every week we talk about a different topic to do with work, which we hope will help you to have a bit more confidence, clarity and control in your squiggly career.
0:16.0	And there are now more than 270 episodes of the podcast.
0:20.2	276, Sarah.
0:21.7	Oh, to be exact.
0:22.9	To be precise.
0:24.8	And that sounds overwhelming, I think, rather than a good thing.
0:27.6	I feel like we're trying to say that as a good thing, all those amazing episodes,
0:30.8	but it just sounds like a lot.
0:32.0	There are that many issues with careers that you need that many episodes of a podcast
0:35.8	to help you.
0:36.9	But if you are trying to look for some free resources, if you go onto amazingif.com and you
0:42.6	look for our toolkit, we do have our top 10 episodes and we have pod sheets for each of those
0:48.9	episodes which summarises things like the ideas for action and the coach yourself questions.
0:53.4	We also have a podcast page on our
0:55.6	website where again you can search by some keywords and we've tried to put some podcasts together
1:00.4	just to help you get started or if you've got a particular need or a question in mind and you
1:06.0	want to see if you can find a podcast to help you with it. And if you can't find the links
1:09.9	of that stuff, we'll put it all in the show notes for you as well. And you can always email us or just Helen and Sarah at
1:14.1	squiggly careers.com. And also, Sarah, welcome back, because you weren't here last week. Where
1:18.4	were you? You went with me talking about squiggly careers. You were? No, I was on holiday
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