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Assertiveness Training: What it is, plus 7 tips to get you started

Assertiveness Training: What it is, plus 7 tips to get you started

You said "yes" to yet another responsibility at work that you don't have time for. You let your friend borrow money, even though she never pays you back. You didn't tell the waiter that they got your order wrong, so you ended up with a meal you didn't even like. If things like this keep happening to you, you might wonder if you'd benefit from assertiveness training.

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Beyond agile working: This is the future of high-performing teams, according to the CTO of Semantic

Beyond agile working: This is the future of high-performing teams, according to the CTO of Semantic

In Snowbird, Utah, in a small resort nestled in the mountains just east of Salt Lake City, a conference gathered together in 2000 made up of the senior software engineers and architects from a number of development companies, driven by a shared set of problems that they had found that were endemic to their operations. Their belief was, at the time, that software development processes had stagnated because building software was treated the same way as the construction of an aircraft carrier or a massive convention center.

Kurt Cagle