6 Steps you can take today to communicate with confidence!

In this increasingly virtual world, effective communication skills are more important than ever.

Using your voice is the best way to share your thoughts, ideas, and needs with others in real time. But what if the idea of speaking up makes you freeze in place?

Most of us are raised to be passive in our communication to our parents and elders, meaning that we aren’t taught the skills necessary to be assertive later in life.

Instead, the idea of speaking assertively feels uncomfortable, rude, or even aggressive, triggering the feeling that someone will react negatively to you or be upset with you. This is all learned behavior from when you were young. To really change it, you have to break those associations from the past and learn new ways of communicating with your peers, employers, and family.