Enhancing Confidence and Assertiveness in Employability Skills

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Understanding the concepts of confidence and assertiveness is crucial in developing employability skills. Assertiveness involves standing up for oneself while respecting others. Tips for gaining confidence include visualization, self-affirmation, facing fears daily, and challenging your inner critic. Being assertive requires positive self-assertion, open communication, active listening, and a problem-solving approach to conflicts. Videos provide additional insights on boosting confidence and being more assertive at work.

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Building confidence and assertiveness 2020 EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS

What is confidence and assertiveness? Assertiveness is an interpersonal skill in which you demonstrate the healthy confidence to stand up for yourself while still respecting the rights of others. When you are assertive, you are neither passive nor aggressive, but direct and honest.

How to gain confidence? Visualize yourself as you want to be. Affirm yourself. Do one thing that scares you every day. Question your inner critic. Take the 100 days of rejection challenge. Set yourself up to win. Help someone else. Care for yourself.

How to be assertive? Make the decision to positively assert yourself. Aim for open and honest communication. Listen actively. Agree to disagree. Avoid guilt trips. Stay calm. Take a problem-solving approach to conflict. Practice assertiveness.