Asssertive Rights

Found an interesting note about what are our assertive rights as thought in American Business world. This is from a course I am working on "Dealing with Difficult People"

Here is the list, I know you all will like,

• Right to say "no" without feeling guilty or selfish.
• Right to determine the use of your own time.
• Right to feel and express anger.
• Right to feel and express healthy competitiveness and achievement drive.
• Right to strive for self-actualization through whatever channels one's talents and interests find natural.
• Right to use one's own judgment in deciding which needs are the most important for one to meet.
• Right to make mistakes.
• Right to have one's opinions given the same respect and consideration that other people's opinions are given, even when they are different.
• Right to ask for help from other people.
• Right to be treated as a capable human adult and not to be patronized.
• Right to consider one's own needs to be as important as those of other people.
• Right to decide how one will take care of one's own responsibilities.
• Right to ask someone else to change his or her behavior.
• Right to tell someone else of one's needs.
• Right to be independent.
• Right to judge your own behavior, thoughts, and emotions, and to take the responsibility for their initiation and consequences upon yourself.
• Right to offer no reasons or excuses for justifying your behavior.
• Right to judge if you are responsible for finding solutions to other people's problems.
• Right to change your mind.
• Right to say, "I don't know."
• Right to be independent of the goodwill of others before coping with them.
• Right to be illogical in making decisions.
• Right to say, "I don't understand."
• Right to say, "I don't care."
• Right to take "time out" before responding or taking action.

*Credit to Patricia Jakubowski-Spector, Ed.D., University of Missouri-St. Louis

Let me know if you like it,