How To Speak Up & Be Assertive With Your Boss
Shrink For The Shy Guy
Dr. Aziz: Social Anxiety And Confidence Expert, Author and Coach
4.8 • 649 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2020
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Stop Staying Silent And Start Sharing Your Perspective At Work
Are you able to freely share your ideas at work, especially with your supervisor or boss? Many people find it anxiety-provoking to even imagine speaking up and being assertive with their boss.
Join Dr. Aziz as he teaches the inner mindset and specific assertiveness skills to bring your voice forward in work situations where it matters most.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Shrink for the Shy Guy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is the show for you if you are sick and tired of being held back by fear, self-doubt, |
| 0:10.0 | social anxiety, shyness, anything that's stopping you from you being you. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm going to share the most powerful tools and resources that I've been discovering over the last 15 years on my |
| 0:21.9 | journey to eradicate social anxiety and instill confidence, first in myself and then in every |
| 0:28.5 | single person that I meet on my journey. You're going to learn these tools and how to apply them |
| 0:33.1 | in your life now so that you can become the most free, powerful, bold, authentic version of you. |
| 0:46.6 | Hey, welcome today's episode. Today, let's talk about a topic that is dangerous, shall we? Let's live life on the edge. And this topic is how to |
| 0:57.2 | challenge your boss. Oh yes. Now I know that might seem terrifying or unacceptable or dangerous, |
| 1:05.5 | as I mentioned in the beginning. But actually, what if it's essential? What if it's not only essential for your own sanity but for |
| 1:15.3 | your boss and for the entire company organization division team that you're a part of what if it's |
| 1:20.9 | actually a good thing let's talk about in this episode how to make it a good thing not only for |
| 1:26.0 | you but for others and actually can bring about a lot of benefit in your world. Okay. So let's dive right into it right now. |
| 1:34.3 | And if you are, I don't know, you're currently self-employed or you have your own team members. |
| 1:38.4 | Well, first of all, if you have employees or team members or people working below you, this will |
| 1:42.1 | be extremely valuable for you as well. And if you say, well, I don't have any boss. I just work with clients directly. |
| 1:47.9 | Well, in some way, you have a relationship or working relationship with your clients where you might need to challenge them. |
| 1:54.3 | And otherwise, this could be, if anyone, in a place of authority. |
| 1:57.3 | But boss is one of the most common. |
| 1:58.5 | You could also think of supervisor, employer, whatever term you use for someone who seems like they have power. Okay, a couple of |
| 2:04.5 | mindset things, and then we're going to get into a lot of specific strategies of what to say |
| 2:09.1 | and what to do. This falls into the category of assertiveness, being less nice, being more you, |
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