Coaching Yourself to Leadership: Five Key Strategies for Becoming an Integrated Leader
by Ginny O'Brien
Staying Grounded and Assertive
Your psychological perspective and behavioral style can affect the way in which you communicate with others. If you are the type of person who focuses on pleasing others or you have extreme discomfort with disagreement, you might passively retreat or send passive-aggressive mixed messages, without meaning to and without even realizing that you are doing it. If you aren’t feeling grounded (if you don’t feel that you have your emotions under control and can communicate in a rational and calm manner), you might vacillate between aggressiveness, passiveness, and passive aggressiveness, causing fear and confusion. People won’t know what to expect from you and will probably avoid you rather than risk getting attacked ...
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