HOW TO ASSERT YOURSELF FOR RESULTS
Achieving Effective, Courteous Communications for Success in Today's World

This program gives you valuable tools you can put into use for yourself RIGHT NOW, to give you a definite advantage towards success and achieving your goals.

The program contains:

• six audio cassettes - a side for listening and a side for practice
• three workbooks - work hand in hand with the cassettes
• three transcripts - full text from the audio cassettes. (a handy reference to tuck away in your briefcase or bookshelf)
• three library quality storage albums - beautiful book-like cases, suited for any decor. An elegant way to store your learning materials

This remarkable audio cassette program teaches you courteous assertiveness - the art of standing up for your rights without offending other people. It shows you exactly how to deal coolly and calmly with aggressive people. How to get your point across, stick to your guns and get what you want in life....without manipulating or bullying.

How to Assert Yourself for Results inspires sensible solutions to everyday people problems at work and at home. You learn to sidestep self-defeating actions and develop an inner core of self-esteem. With your strong new belief in yourself, you project an impressive image - one of unmistakable personal power and control. Serene self-assurance that gives you the strength and flexibility of tempered steel. In short, you quickly acquire the winning attitudes that spell success in every aspect of your life.

What this Program Gives You: Each of the three volumes comprising How to Assert Yourself for Results contains a treasury of tested success techniques. Strategies that are relevant, rewarding and immediately applicable to your work and your personal life.

Here is a brief outline of the wealth of material you get on these tapes:

• Overview: The Who, What, Where, Why and How of assertiveness...with an eye to the changes and challenges of the current and future business environment.
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• Self-Assessment: Discover your "learning style". Evaluate your career - present and future.
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• Your Assertiveness Bill of Rights: 10 inalienable rights to insist upon for yourself and others.
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• Assertion vs. Aggression: Recognizing the differences. Defining and understanding assertive, aggressive, non-assertive and submissive behavior in yourself as well as others.
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• Hands on Exercises and Quizzes: Monitor your mastery of assertiveness concepts. Learn to identify your specific problem areas. Set your personal assertiveness goals.
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• Your Self Image and Self Esteem: How to avoid undermining yourself with negative messages. Reacting positively to criticism...and graciously to compliments.
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• How to Avoid 10 Cognitive Distortions (Self-Destructive Thinking): Specific strategies for overcoming negative ways of thinking, like over-generalizing or magnifying a difficulty.
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• Self-Defeating Feelings vs. Constructive Ideas: Use the Assertiveness Bill of Right transform guilt into a positive attitude. Change anger and resentment into calm, cool thinking.
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• Self-Assessment Questionnaire: Based on a testing program used successfully by Fortune 500 firms. Measure the current quality of your relationships with peers, superiors and subordinators.
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• How to Behave Assertively: The five key steps to assessing any situation. Assertive, courteous language and speech: Learning how and when to say "no".
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• Putting Assertiveness Into Action: When to be assertive. Recognizing and dealing with people with different communication styles.