Assertive Behavior Paper

Assertive is not a personality trait that most would use to describe myself. Given the options of passive, assertive, and aggressive most would choose passive. Keeping this in mind, I went into last week ready to try new things; this included being assertive in situations I am usually not.
An assertive behavior I had over the week that stands out to me was in an EMT class working on cardiac arrest management. The students were separated into groups of four and one had to be the group leader. This responsibility included directing people what to do and to make sure that they were doing it right. After being given the scenario from an instructor I had to split people up and give them specific jobs, such as compressions, AED use, and airway management.