The top reason people shy away from speaking up and expressing their needs, boundaries, desires, true thoughts, and feelings are their fears of speaking up. The top four fears of speaking up are the fear of coming across as rude, offensive, aggressive, or mean; the fear of being disliked; the fear of hurting people’s feelings; and the fear of retaliation or backlash.
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Speaking up doesn’t only happen when someone is treating you poorly. Speaking up happens every time you speak with someone with a clear purpose. Here are 50 opportunities to speak up at work that will bring you closer to your dreams, to your desired lifestyle, and success.
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The 10 mistakes that make you seem less credible are: apologize, minimize your view, say ‘just’, stop when interrupted, ask for permission, introduce your opinions, over-justify, uptalk, and become the office mom.
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The top 6 myths about confrontation and conflict that you learned as a child were that they are bad, they’re caused by difficult people, it means there is a problem in your relationships, time will solve problems without the need for conflict, that it is overwhelming, and that kind people don’t confront.
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5 steps to respond to dismissive comments are to stay calm, change your tone to serious, keep your message short and to the point, talk about what you want and the consequences, move on quickly and treat the aggressor respectfully afterwards.
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