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Assertiveness Skills Training Course in Cork

Our 1-day CPD accredited Assertiveness Skills training course is delivered as an open course in Cork or online. We can also deliver the course in-house just for your business as an in-person course across Ireland or a live virtual online course.

Assertiveness Skills Course Highlights

Here’s some quick information about our Assertiveness Skills course in Cork:

  • 1-day training course delivered in-person in Cork or online
  • Delivered anywhere in Ireland as an in-house course
  • CPD Accredited - equates to 5.5 hours of CPD
  • Booking is easy. Just select a location, a date and hit Book Now!

Assertiveness Skills Course Cork – The Details

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Course Overview

Course Aim

Our Assertiveness Skills Training Course in Cork will provide you with the skills and approaches to communicate more confidently with others.

By understanding how to control emotions, you will understand how to have controlled conversations, demonstrate confidence and use these skills to build more effective relationships.

Alongside this, the course will introduce you to practical tips and techniques to help build confidence and self-esteem.

You will be able to share your experiences with others and learn more about your individual communication style and others to help you deal with and reduce conflict. You will also have plenty of opportunities to practice the skills in a safe and controlled environment.

Course Objectives

By attending this assertiveness skills course you will:

  • Understand why and when you will need to be assertive
  • Be able to identify the characteristics of aggressive, passive and assertive behaviour
  • Recognise different situations where you will need to be assertive and apply the necessary skills
  • Understand how your body language, language and interactions with others drives different behaviours in them
  • Have built confidence in having difficult conversations with others
  • Be able to use the skills to influence others effectively to change attitude and improve performance

Course Content

Here's what we cover in our Assertiveness Skills training course in Cork.

What is Assertiveness?
  • An introduction to what Assertiveness is and what it means
  • Why be assertive?
Aggressive and Passive Behaviours
  • Understanding what assertiveness is not
  • Looking at gut reactions and controlled reactions
  • Understanding the link between these behaviours
  • Body language, language and words associated with assertiveness
Assertive Behaviour
  • How to use different assertive skills and behavious and how to adapt them to different situations
  • How to demonstrate confident communication
  • Using controlled responses and not a gut reaction
Assertiveness and Relationships with others
  • Understanding where gut reactions and unconscious reactions come from
  • Understanding how our reactions can drive aggressive and passive behaviours in others
  • Looking at your own style of communication and that of others to understand how to reduce conflict
  • Asking for what you need and want with confidence
  • Dealing with confrontation and challenges
Different Ways of Being Assertive
  • Bill of rights – What is this and what does it mean?
  • Broken Record
  • I statements
  • Power Words
  • Giving feedback

When you bring this Assertiveness Skills course in-house, the content above can be tweaked and changed to meet the needs of your team.

Accreditation

Our Assertiveness Skills training course in Cork is accredited by the CPD Standards Office. This demonstrates our commitment to quality and industry best practices and you can be sure that the course you receive has been assessed to ensure it meets its objectives.

This course equates to 5.5 hours of CPD. After completing the course you will receive your CPD certificate and learning path document as record of your attendance.

The same accreditation applies when we deliver this course as an in-house course for you too.

CPD Accredited

Download the Course Brochure

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Download Assertiveness Skills Course Brochure

Our Approach

No PowerPoint

Yes, you read that right! We’ve removed PowerPoint from our in-person training courses. Instead we use more creative ways to deliver content and generate discussion.

Always Interactive

No matter how you attend, our courses are interactive and designed specifically for the delivery method being used.

Practical Tools

We minimise theory and focus on practical tools you can take away and use immediately in the workplace.

Clear Pricing

Transparent pricing for open courses and clear all-inclusive quotes for in-house and bespoke work.

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