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What is assertiveness and what is being bossy?
I am just looking for a public definition of what people consider assertiveness and what people consider to be bossy. What defines them for you? What seperates them?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.i walk onto my Department and as manager I ask my staff to pull their fingers out and get some shoes sold as that is their job.
My supervisor comes on the department and tells one of the staff to take the rubbish to the loading bay,
one is assertive and one is bossy, you decide. What seperates them is authority .
my guess is if you did a database check, 'assertive' would most often be used about males and 'bossy' most often about females.
Note the last few paragraphs in this story:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,1765200,00.html
Actually i think they are 2 dfifferent things entirely.
Assertiveness is stating what you want or do not want so there is no confusion and no chance of a refusal
Bossiness is telling people what you want but putting people's backs up and the opportunity for refusal is greater.
I'll ask once, tell you the second time and heaven help you if I need to do anything the third time!
And I've been described as bossy since i was about 5!
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