Martha Clark

Based in New York Present Work Creative Director Coomeet USA Creative and driven journalist with 5+ years of experience. Assisted in managing social media accounts as well as company website. Wrote and edited stories to be featured on air at 6, 7, and 9 am newscasts. Conducted 15+ interviews live including city government officials. Engaged with the community as station representative at local charity functions and galas. Covered a variety of topics in hard news as well as health and well being.

Assertiveness Skills Are Essential To Success

Assertiveness, describes a behavior that we can classify as confident without being antagonistic. With assertiveness skills, we can calmly confront the things in life that we need to confront without being either too afraid to do so effectively, or overbearing and aggressive. For instance, knocking on a neighbor’s door and calmly asking him not to mow at 5:30 in the morning would be assertive. Ignoring it and then complaining would be a less confident approach. On the other hand, banging on the door and screaming in his face would be overly aggressive and would only create more problems.

You can imagine the differing outcomes of the different approaches and begin to see how finding the middle ground of assertiveness can be more effective.

Things to Consider About Assertiveness

In being assertive, one thing to think about is your time. Time is something that we can never get back. Developing better assertiveness skills can help us protect our time more wisely.

Your time is precious but at the same time, you must spend it on other people’s demands quite often. Your job is an important example. Unfortunately, sometimes, we allow others to waste our time inappropriately. Keep track of the time you spend on other peoples needs and know where to draw the line. Spend your time on things that are most important first.