Building Your Self Esteem and Assertiveness Skills

Course Overview

• You will spend the first part of the day getting to know participants and discussing what will take place during the workshop. Students will also have an opportunity to identify their personal learning objectives.

What is Self-Esteem?

• During this session, you will lead a discussion around two key questions: Just what does self-esteem mean? What are some of the things that affect our self-esteem?

Improving Self-Esteem

• This session will give participants two ways to start building their self-esteem: reduce negative messages and throw out perfectionism.

 
Building Self-Esteem

• In this session, you will help participants explore how they can create self-confidence through their appearance and first impression.

Increasing Our Self-Esteem

• So far we have looked at external things that affect a person’s self-esteem. Now we will focus on the internal factors; the things that we think about ourselves.

 
Esteemed Confidence

• During this session, you will give participants some easy ways to increase their confidence.

 
The Power of Thought

• Through personal exercises and a case study, participants will explore how thoughts can impact a person’s self esteem.

Ask for What You Want

• Asking for something can be hard, especially if you don’t feel confident. This session will discuss four ways to successfully ask for what you want. Participants will then apply the knowledge to a case study.

 
Create What You Want

• To wrap up the workshop, you will give participants some ways to create an action plan, so that they can get started on the road to confidence today.

Workshop Wrap-Up

• At the end of the day, students will have an opportunity to ask questions and fill out an action plan.

• Recognize that you have worth and are worthy of happiness
• Develop techniques for eliminating unhealthy thought patterns and replacing them with supportive patterns
• Learn how to turn negative thoughts into positive thoughts
• Learn how to make requests so that you get what you want
• Set goals that reflect your dreams and desires and reinforce healthy patterns

All employees in public and private business sectors, and university students.