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Understanding your Assertiveness scale

You are being assertive when you express your own needs calmly and confidently,
Sample without forcing them on others. It represents a direct, open, honest and appropriate
expression of one's feelings, opinions, values and beliefs
When left unguarded it often results in either one of the following: Either people
become submissive and let people push them around and define their roles, or people
Report rebel and become aggressive and dominate, humiliate or put down other people.
While both behaviours are inappropriate Assertivenesss is based on balancing the two
extremes without allowing our behavior to devolve into either. This tool is designed to
assess the level of assertiveness, submissiveness and agression you display in our
regular communication.
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moderate 60 Submissiveness 59 Moderate
High Your report indicates that you are near high passive in your interactions and
communications with people around you. This can be a result of your overall personality
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or your childhood experiences or both, since passivity is not in born but a behavioral
low response we learn from our early childhood. Submissive or passive behavior does not
very high always refer to an aversion to communicate. A passive behavior can be a very matured
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response to certain types of conflicts. However, in other instances you can step back
Submissiveness
very low
and identify the triggers in the situation which prompt you towards a passive response.
Since submissive response is a learnt behaviour it is possible to unlearn them and
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substitute them with a more positive approach - a few of them are described overleaf.
High
61 Aggressiveness 37 Moderate
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moderate
Your report indicates that you display moderate aggressiveness in some of your
conversations. This could be interpreted as a conscious effort you make, to keep your
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low conversations from slipping into a submissive style. Watchout for few derailers that
very high
can happen when submissiveness is substituted with aggressiveness. To the other person
you could appear as someone trying dominate the conversation and come out a winner,
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Aggressiveness
very low while your objective perhaps is to just ensure that your message is taken seriously and
not ignored.
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moderate
Assertiveness 55 moderate
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low
High Your report indicates that you are moderately assertive in your conversations. This
can be interpreted that your conscious efforts to keep your conversations from
slipping off into a submissive or an aggressive mode are moderately useful.. While
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aggressive behavior is based on winning, assertive behavior is based on balance, and this
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very high scale can be interpreted as indicating that you are moderately successful in acheivng
Assertiveness
very low this balance. When evaluated together in context of the submissive and the aggressive
scale it appears that your submissiveness (Submissive score) has a larger influence on
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your assertiveness than your aggressiveness (agressive score). This indicates that as a
practice you may need to display and communicate more firmness than usual.
Assertiveness Effectivenes Quotient 56.45
Most conversations we have in our regular course of work, comprises of all three elements -
Submissiveness, Aggressiveness, and Assertiveness. Our personality, upbringing, culture
motivations, perceived challenges and many other factors come together and contribute to our
conversational styles, making one of them our dominant style of responding especially in difficult
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Mid Zone social situations. Much of this is learnt behaviour and most of our behavioral learning takes place
in social contexts. As adults in stressful or difficult situations unless we consciously traini ourselves
to choose an Assertive style, we, by default will fall back either on "Submissive" or "Aggressive"
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Low The Assertiveness Effectiveness Quotient is an indicator of the degree of Assertiveness we all
maintain in our day to day conversations. It also indicates the influence of "Submissiveness" and
"Aggressiveness" both have on our ability to remain "Assertive". The score is measured on a scale of
100 and the higher the score the better. The score indicates how consciously we are able to acheive
a balance between our Submissive and Aggressive styles, and how we skillfully drive a
conversation between the traps of appearing too timid, soft and vulnerable on one side and being
seen as dominating, impatient and belligerent.
Your score is 56.45 and lies in the mid zone inclined towards the higher side