Here's how you can maintain assertiveness in high-pressure situations.

Know your own abilities first remember you are perishable Guage the situation and act accordingly that's how you'll know and deal

To maintain assertiveness in high pressure situation, one can practice speaking assertively in low-pressure settings. You could practice your responses to typical arguments, discussions or presentations by recording yourself or role-playing with a friend. This helps with an improved level of self awareness and practice they say, makes perfect.

Self-awareness: Understand your strengths, weaknesses, and triggers. Knowing how you typically react under pressure can help you anticipate and manage your responses. ? Confidence: Build confidence in your skills and knowledge. When you’re confident in your abilities, it’s easier to assert yourself without being aggressive. ? Values and Boundaries: Clearly define your values and boundaries. Knowing what you stand for and what you’re willing to compromise on can help you stay assertive without being confrontational.

I would share the basic things in maintaining assertiveness in your communication skill is: a) Always take a deep breath and listen to the other party grievances, opinions etc and try to take a step back to understand it from your perspectives. b) After listening, ensure that what you want to deliver despite of the environment would be high pressure, hostile. Focus on the matter arise, explain what that you understand from the other party. Next, you identify what are the root cause or problem. Explaining how does the process, products etc works. Ask how can we make it better, how can we work this things out because this is what I understand and ensuring that both party are in the same boat. It's not easy but it will create a buffer.

There's a saying that goes 'fail to prepare, prepare to fail'. By planning in advance and preparing extensively, this will build up confidence and reduce anxiety. By planning for different situations and expected outcomes, this will ensure assertiveness and conviction within responses.

For my 7 years ++ experiences, I believed that emotional intelligence is really important not only for working environment but also personal growth. Techniques that I always believed will help with emotions: a) Understand yourself better, what triggers you to get triggered or easily distracted such as people who speaks loud, confrontational etc. Each of us are different. b) Always listen first, comprehend what the other party is saying and after you listen to it. Ask back and realign back with them. If they still push you around, do remain calm, articulate it back and make the issue to your own words so putting the discussion back to the table instead of going around avoiding confrontation.

a) Maintain eye contact while talking is important, in gaining the confident towards the audiences. b) Posture not to slouch or looking slack, stand straight, sit up straight and always be in a good posture as this will give more confidence and affirmation from people in the room, meetings, conferences. c) Movement of the hand, body language also play a vital role. Don't show your back body towards the audiences, we should be looking them and this would give more affirmation to them to listen, focus on you. d) Gesture such as nodding, responding to their inquiries, grievances etc is something that is really important as it gives validation to them and will help us to build rapport, understanding between each other.

Posture: Stand or sit up straight to project confidence. ? Eye Contact: Maintain appropriate eye contact to show engagement and assertiveness. ? Calm Tone: Use a steady, calm tone of voice to convey your message without escalating tension.