Speaking Up Assertiveness Skills Promotes DEI
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How Assertiveness Training Supports DEI
Assertive communication empowers employees to speak up authentically and respectfully without being confrontational and without experiencing backlash.
Assertive communication is the skill of expressing opinions, perspective, disagreement, feelings, rights, desires, goals, boundaries, decisions, and even negative messages to anyone in a respectful, effective, and calm way. It is the opposite of being aggressive or of being passive.
It is a skill that increases influence, decreases conflict, improves communication, and enhances perceived competence and credibility.
At Assertive Way we specialize in empathetic assertiveness skills, which pair strong assertiveness with warmth for maximum professional impact by balancing competence with likability. This is crucial for women and minorities to reduce backlash and retaliation when speaking up.
We help companies and institutions improve DEI with a bottom-up approach: training minorities and women on effective assertiveness skills.
- MORE INTERNAL PROMOTIONS by helping minorities position themselves and other minorities for internal promotions by self-promoting, communicating with warmth and authority, and making the ask.
- MORE SUCCESS IN LEADERSHIP ROLES by providing essential soft skills for minorities rising through leadership to succeed (give feedback, share perspectives, disagree, handle conflict, request resources, hard conversations).
- INCREASED RETENTION of minorities because they feel more in control (and less like victims) with speaking up assertively skills.
- MORE ACCESS by empowering minorities to ask for access to resources, opportunities, and key decision-makers in a way that minimizes backlash or retaliation.
- MORE FAIRNESS by providing minorities the skills to become their best advocate, stand up for themselves when they experience unfair treatment, and pursue their interests.
- LESS BIASED JUGEMENT by enabling minorities with assertive questioning skills to reduce assumptions and judgement in interactions.
- MORE FEELING VALUED by providing minorities with actionable skills to make themselves heard and understoodin meetings, to help superiors appreciate and recognize them, and to get coworkers to take them seriously.
- MORE AUTHENTICITY by giving them the ability to express their differences and individuality in a positive way.
- MORE VOICE by boosting their confidence to speak up at work.
