Good Employers Want a Balance of Assertiveness and Agressiveness . How to Cultivate that Vital Balance
Employers often avoid hiring overly aggressive employees as they drive business away. However employers want and hire assertive employees because assertive behavior projects capability and promotes a healthy productive working environment. What are these traits and how can you create a healthy balance?
Assertive behavior can be many things. It can be standing up for your rights, expressing yourself honestly, courtesly and comfortably as well as observing and respecting the rights of others.
Assertive behavior promotes equality and a healthy balance in human relationship. Assertion is based on human right- especially the right to be treated with respect in all situations. Every person has the right to be listened to and taken seriously, to say yes or no with conviction, to express his or her opinion, and ask for what he or she wants.
Assertive behavior is critical to a successful job search and career potent ional because it conveys self-esteem and capability.
Employers hire people who behave confidently and are able to convey their job...