What is assertiveness, why is it important, and how can you harness it's benefits? Kusal Goonewardena, Director of Elite Akademy Sports Medicine, covers the five strategies to master assertiveness. Master assertiveness and fulfil your life goals with authority, ease and joy.

1. Leadership
Chapter 2
Assertiveness
By Kusal
Goonewardena

2. Kusal Goonewardena
Director
APA Titled Sports Physiotherapist
Lecturer Sports Science

3. Sports
Physiotherapist in
since 1999.
Founder/Director of
3 Sports Medicine
Clinics Australia

4. Over 65,000
Treatment
Sessions in
Sports Injuries &
Performance

5. Melbourne
University
Sports
Physio
Since 2002

6. Lecturer and
Consultant
Australia China
Singapore
Sri Lanka
India

7. Author
My latest Releases

8. My Current
Research

9. Lecturer
Sports
Science

10. My aims for
you
Leadership
Why assertiveness is important
How can you harness it’s benefits
What you can do to improve

11. Assertiveness
-Definition-
Disposed to or characterized by bold or
confident statements and behavior

12. Assertiveness
Why is it important?
"Nobody can make you feel
inferior without your consent."
-Eleanor Roosevelt

13. Assertiveness
Is it a learnable skill?
Yes? No?
What makes up
assertiveness?

14. Assertiveness Spectrum
Too Weak Just Right
Too
Strong

15. Assertiveness
How to Get It Right?
One Single Determinant!
Too Weak Just Right
Too
Strong
Your Power

16. Assertiveness
High Power
Too Weak Just Right Too Strong
Your Power

17. Assertiveness
Low Power
Too Weak
You go unnoticed
Too Low
Too Strong
Speak up and rejected
Your Power

18. How to Build Your Power
1. You see yourself as
Powerful
(Confidence – Chapter 1)
2. Others see you as Powerful
Your Power

19. How to Build Your Power –
STRATEGIES
Step 1
Step into the other
person’s shoes
Your Power

20. How to Build Your Power –
STRATEGIES
Step 2
Give them Options
Your Power

21. How to Build Your Power –
STRATEGIES
Step 3
Social Proof
Your Power

22. How to Build Your Power –
STRATEGIES
Step 4
Credibility through
evidence
Your Power

23. How to Build Your Power –
STRATEGIES
Step 5
Display Your Passion
Your Power

24. How to Build Your Power – STRATEGIES –
Which One is Right for you?
Step into the other person’s shoes
Give them Options
Social Proof
Credibility through evidence
Display Your Passion
Your Power

25. Assertiveness – The Results
Too Weak Just Right Too Strong
A joyful life for YOU

26. Thank You
If you have any questions at all please do
not hesitate to send a note or email
My email address is:
kusal@eliteakademy.com
Lastly all my slides are uploaded to
www.slideshare.net/KusalGoonewardena