A Practical Guide to Assertiveness: Express Yourself

by David Bonham-Carter

What is assertiveness, and what are benefits? Filled with straightforward, practical advice, Introducing A Practical Guide will help you find out, allowing you to overcome passive behaviour and take ownership of your own thoughts and feelings without becoming aggressive. Experienced life and business coach David Bonham-Carter provides clear, practical steps to help you develop they key characteristics of assertiveness – steps that can improve your work life and your personal life.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology

197 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2012

Reviews

[Aarthi Prabhakaran · Rating 3 out of 5]

Felt the content to be quite repetitive

Personally, there were sections where I found it to be overdoing the apesct of naming every suggestion or phenomenon, including usage of abbreviations/acronyms. This proved to be quite distracting to the reading flow and hence the grasp of message.

[Jesseca Dwyer · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book took an awful lot of willpower to finish. Not that there wasn't plenty of ideas for managing how one interacts with the world around them, it just wasn't a very interesting page turner for me.

[hemlet kiai · Rating 3 out of 5]

a practical guide on how to be assertive. interesting reading.

[Ellen · Rating 2 out of 5]

What compelled me to pick this up? At least it was free.

[Lizzie · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good read

This is a fantastic book that gives so many different ideas that can help with dealing with situations that can be difficult to deal with.

[Alaa · Rating 5 out of 5]

So clear an easy to follow

The book gives a practical, realistic, and easy steps to follow. It’s like a manual that you go back to evaluate your progress!

[Faiza Hussein · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

this book explains in detail about how to be assertive and having self esteem. I like it. I enjoyed reading this book.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

For me, this one is between three and four stars but it is a solid resource so I rounded up. The book is quite small but contains a great deal of information and advice. It is wonderful that Bonham-Carter gives a range of suggestions and ideas for the reader to choose from and adapt rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription of 'steps you must take'. The latter approach is a fairly arrogant assumption on the part of a writer, and unhelpful to anyone (aka virtually everyone) who does not fit the writer's model. In contrast, Bonham-Carter's approach is friendly, compassionate, and respectful to the reader while still also being informative. Bonham-Carter gives some good examples of how to apply the information with suggestions on how the reader might adapt an approach to suit her/his needs.

[Liz De Coster · Rating 2 out of 5]

A combination of advice on basic communication skills (such as 'how to be a good listener' and 'giving constructive criticism' ) and basic cognitive therapeutic advice (avoiding catastrophic thinking). The appendices of major thinkers in the field was the most valuable part.

[Ahmed · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice book

I learn a lot i practical guide how to be assertive . Thank you author for your effort to make the concept easy.