How to Own Healthy Assertion

How to Own Healthy Assertion

July 9, 2025 · 22 min · Episode 257

About this episode

The episode discusses how to access healthy assertion in conflict situations, emphasizing awareness and expression as key skills.

Still traumatized over an angry explosion she’d aimed at an abusive leader years before, a leader asks her coach to help her access healthy assertion to use during moments of conflict. Where are you on the assertion scale? Our assessments will tell you. In the episode, ASSERTION got divided into two skills: AWARENESS and EXPRESSION. The four-step script to build healthy ASSERTION is: SituationFeelingWantOutcome Part of assertion is EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE. Our tool defines ...

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