{"id":7693,"date":"2017-09-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/a-simple-way-to-be-more-assertive-without-being-pushy\/"},"modified":"2017-09-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T05:00:00","slug":"a-simple-way-to-be-more-assertive-without-being-pushy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/a-simple-way-to-be-more-assertive-without-being-pushy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Simple Way to Be More Assertive (Without Being Pushy)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hate confrontation or speaking up to address an issue in the workplace? You can overcome your fear of confrontation by using the &#8220;assertiveness formula&#8221; described in the article below.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/2017\/08\/a-simple-way-to-be-more-assertive-without-being-pushy\">A Simple Way to Be More Assertive (Without Being Pushy)<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Executive Summary Speaking up in instances of conflict can be difficult, especially if you&#8217;re shy, lacking confidence, or come from a culture where it is inappropriate to speak up. But there is hope for the chronically unassertive among us. Simply use an &#8220;assertiveness formula.&#8221; There are three steps to an assertiveness formula.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hate confrontation or speaking up to address an issue in the workplace? You can overcome your fear of confrontation by using the &#8220;assertiveness formula&#8221; described in the article below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/hbr.org\/resources\/images\/article_assets\/2017\/08\/aug17-31-660558175.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[332],"class_list":{"0":"post-7693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-conflict"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}