Being Assertive: Making Yourself Heard

Building and maintaining a professional reputation is an essential skill for researchers at any stage of their careers. This course will help researchers to develop assertive communication strategies to enhance their professionalism through everyday interactions with others.

By the end of the course, you will:

• Understand the benefits of being assertive
• Know what assertiveness looks and sounds like
• Enhance your skills in communicating assertively

Topics covered:

• how to develop an assertive mind-set
• the difference between assertive, aggressive, indirectly aggressive and passive thinking and behaviour
• guidance on how to use assertive language in day-to-day conversation
• identifying your rights and responsibilities

All PhD Students and Postdoctoral Researchers/Research Staff
Further details regarding eligibility criteria are here

Number of sessions: 1

Please see the Course Description and Topics Covered for the course aims.

Workshop for combining short lectures, discussion and participant exercises.

This workshop has been designed around the fact that the career trajectories of Cambridge researchers are numerous and diverse and those who achieve success have allocated time and energy to building their own ‘self-leadership’ capabilities. Self-leadership is defined as a pro-active and strategic approach to getting the most out of yourself and those with whom you interact in your everyday working lives.

For more details, please email Researcher Development

2 hour session

Three times per term