Your most influential communicator is still your body and voice It sure is and here’s why:Communication happens over two channels, verbal andnonverbal, resulting in two distinct conversations going on at thesame time. While verbal communication is obviously important, it’snot the only message being sent. Without the ability to read bodylanguage, […]
The eyes have itMost of us are comfortable with eye contact lasting around 3 seconds, but when we like or agree with someone, we automatically increase the amount of time we look into their eyes and, in general, people tend to look longer and with more frequency at people or […]
Yes, even in this online world we still need to gesture! I’m going to share best practice when it comes to gesturing on video meetings, presentation and more. But firstly, why do we gesture? We gesture for 3 reasons.
You are on your way to the front of the room and it is your turn to speak. Many of us think the show starts, literally, once we turn around to begin speaking. But it does not. People’s attention is on you from the minute you stand and often that […]
It is a question I am asked often, “Can we size someone up within seconds of meeting?” There is without doubt ‘tells’ from our body language, voice and breathing that will help us to instantly create a perception within our mind about whom we are dealing with. It is why […]