#580 Small actions to increase your assertiveness

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Hi, I'm Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast, and you're listening to one of our squiggly shortcuts. These are episodes that come out every Thursday. And we have done them deliberately short, so they are really easy to listen and learn from. We hear from so many of our community that they are really, really short of time and they really want to learn, but it needs to be as easy as possible. So hopefully, hopefully that is what we're doing for you with these shortcuts. So today I want to talk to you a little bit about assertiveness. I feel like assertiveness is one of those skills that people say, like, Oh, you need to be more assertive. And it's like this big

Skill. That we don't often break down into okay, well so what What can I practically do differently? What Is going to help me to be more assertive. And my opinion on this is that it's a series of small actions. that actually lead to

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