Assertiveness skills

Healthy boundaries at home and at work – how to set and maintain them

Boundaries are important for many things – defining yourself, being heard, asserting your needs, self-care and protecting yourself. A lack of boundaries at work may result in you feeling unseen, undervalued and overworked. A lack of boundaries in your personal life may leave you in dysfunctional and unhappy relationships with Read More

2026-01-29T11:55:01+00:00January 29, 2026|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Conversation skills book review 4: The First Minute (How to start conversations that get results) by Chris Fenning

This is a slightly different conversation book to those I reviewed previously (see list below). The first two focused on starting a conversation in a networking situation. The third focused on conversations between leaders and their people. This book – published in 2020 – is also focused on internal conversations Read More

2023-09-20T11:08:25+01:00September 20, 2023|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management, Selling|

Be visible, assert and challenge and remember your goals – Insights from an Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness workshop

Last week there was almost a full house at the PM Forum’s  workshop on “Assertiveness, impact and effectiveness for marketing and business development assistants and executives”. Delegates were from legal, accounting and actuarial firms in a variety of roles including marketing, business development, digital, graphic design, events and client services Read More

2022-05-19T12:30:16+01:00May 19, 2022|Kim's Blog, Marketing, Relationship Management|

Book review – Brilliant personal effectiveness by Douglas Miller

The start of a New Year means new habits right? I have run training sessions on improving personal effectiveness for many years so it was good to find an introductory book that covers the majority of the topics. It also contains a fair amount of positive psychology (which is pretty Read More

2022-01-04T10:03:13+00:00January 4, 2022|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|

Soft skills – Boost your self-confidence and confidence (Video)

This short (8 minute video) looks at a soft skill - how to boost your self-confidence and confidence. (Video script) Hi I’m Kim Tasso Today I want to talk to you about confidence…how to boost your self-confidence and confidence. And I'll start by asking the question – Why do you Read More

2025-02-10T17:36:36+00:00October 9, 2020|Kim's Blog, Management Skills, Relationship Management|
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