The choice to be reasonably assertive and confident represents a choice to respect your own rights and feelings, as well as that of others around you. It represents how you run your life and choose values.
You and your colleagues:
1. Do not refrain from disagreeing with your colleagues because you fear losing their approval.
2. Do not value someone’s friendship when it depends on your having to be a doormat to him/her.
3. Do not crib helplessly in your heart to favor a colleague if you think it not appropriate.
4. Politely and firmly ask your colleague not to make personal calls from your desk.
5. Listen your colleagues patiently.
You and your superiors:
1. Politely and firmly keep your viewpoint in front of your superiors.
2. Tell your superiors clearly if you are unable to stay to work overtime in the office.
3. Rationally bring forth pros and cons of your viewpoint in meeting.
4. Respect your own persona.
5. Respect others in organization.