Assertiveness Practice Worksheet

Your client is a VP who scores themselves high on assertiveness in most contexts but consistently capitulates in peer-level cross-functional meetings. They have no trouble redirecting direct reports or holding positions with subordinates. The pattern is specific: when facing peers with equal or adjacent authority, they fold on positions they believed going into the meeting.

Frame this as calibration, not development. 'You are clearly capable of assertiveness - the question is what's different...