Develop Good Body Language Skills for Social Success

1. 1 Introduction: A famous author once said, your body language shapes who you are. Bodies can change our mind, then a behavior and ultimately the results. Body language is the biggest superpower one can ever have. It has the power of making you, as well as breaking you. The origin of the word body language in German means movement. Body language plays a major role in almost all aspects of business, especially in leadership and management roles. Have you ever noticed someone's behavior completely inconsistent with what he says? Have you ever felt hard to control your body's in certain situations? Because all you can think of is how nervous you are. In this course, we will discuss the potential implications of the reactions that your body produces in different situations, which might also reveal some nonverbal signals that play a key role in our daily communications. Welcome to the course on good body language skills for social success. The importance of good body language. Albert Mehrabian developed a communication model in which he demonstrated that only 7% of what we communicate consist of literal content of the message. The use of one's voice, such as tone, intonation, volume, it takes up 38%, and as much as 55% of the communication consists of body language. Body language is really important in all forms of communication. It helps to break the barrier of unfamiliarity and helps to form a better connect with recipient of information. People will always remember more of what they see than what they year after they meet. May 1, forget the exact words of the speaker, but may retain a vivid image of the same person's body movements and facial expressions. And what we delivered through verbal means may not match with what when delivered through nonverbal means. The benefits of good body language. Good body language increases your self confidence. It raises your self-esteem. It makes your personality more charming and acceptable. It attracts your audience. It helps in building successful workplace relationships. And last but not the least, it projects you as successful public speaker or a presenter. What will you learn in this course? First of all, we will be breaking the myths about the science of body language. Then we will understand your starting point and improvise from there on. They will understand the components of a good body language, importance of appearance and attire in body language. And last but not least, we will discuss the tips for effective body language. Studies have shown that in the process of communication, nonverbal expression has 65% to 93% more influence than actual text. This means that how to say is more important than what to say. Of course, this does not mean that you don't have to prepare anything for your interviews, nor does it mean that you can take any shortcut. On the contrary, this means that you have more things to pay attention to and prepare for the unusual preparations. So what are you waiting for? I'm super excited to see you inside the course. Let's get started. 2. 2 Getting Started: Getting started breaking the mids. Now for the longest time, I thought that the subject of body language was nothing but nonsense. But then when I deep dive into the subject, I realize that it's not body language, that is nonsense. But most people's idea about body language. That is the sciences valid, but the interpretation is a mess. During this course, you will come across a lot of conventional wisdom. But I wanted to tell you is that these do not generalize anything and make your best judgment when learning and mastering the skill of body language. The other night I was speaking to a group and ask them what it means to someone crossing their arms. They said defensive closed-off and negative. I crossed my arms and proceeded to talk for a moment and ask them if I seem defensive closed-off are negative. And they said no. Now how is that possible? I asked, now my arms aren't grasp and they told me that I was smiling, upbeat, approaching them in an open, friendly way and with the positive tone of voice. And that is exactly the point that I'm trying to make over you. It's not that any one isolated gesture has any meaning. It's the whole picture, it's the whole context. If someone is crossing their arms, it may just mean that they're cold or they're comfortable that way. Body language is a behavior and has to be interpreted in a context of the situation. In terms of decoding someone else's behavior, you can look at isolated bits of body language. There are simply too many reasons for human behavior in controlling your body language to appear more confident an open are in charge of yourself. It's a pools game to try to manage a specific bit of body language. Instead, work on your intake, then your body language will automatically take care of itself. Most importantly, do not ignore the substance because body language is not everything. And know your starting point. A record yourself and observe. One of the best ways to understand where you stand is to record yourself on a camera or a smartphone and then analyze what aspects of body language do you really need to work upon? The things that you should observe when you record yourself, our facial expressions, the human face is extremely expressive. I'm able to convict countless emotions without even saying a word. And unlike some forms of nonverbal communication, facial expressions are universal. The facial expressions for happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust are the same across all cultures. Body movements and posture. Consider how your perception of people are affected by the way they sit, walk, stand, or even hold their head. The way you move and Getty yourself communicates a wealth of information to the world. This type of nonverbal communication includes your posture. Very stands. The subtle movement that you mean. Gestures. Gestures are woven into the fabric of our daily lives. You may VIV human point or use your hands when arguing or speaking animated, often expressing yourself with gestures without even thinking. However, the meaning of some gestures can be very different across various cultures. While the okay sign made with a hand, for example, conveys a positive message in speaking English countries, it's considered offensive in countries such as Germany, Russia, and Brazil. So it's important to be careful of how you use your gestures to avoid any kind of misinterpretation. I contact. Since a visual sense is dominant for most people, I contact is an especially important aspect of nonverbal communication. The way you look at someone can communicate a lot of things including interest, affection, hostility, or attraction. Eye contact is also important in maintaining the flow of conversation and for gauging the other person's interests and response. We communicate a great deal through touch. Think about the very different messages given by a weekend check, bomb, bear hug, a patronizing pat on the head, or the controlling grip on the arm, for example. Space. Have you ever felt uncomfortable during a conversation because the other person was standing very close to you and invading your space. We all have a need for physical space. Although that need differs depending on the culture, situation and the closeness of the relationship, you can use physical space to communicate many different nonverbal messages, including signals of intimacy and affection, aggregation, or even dominance. Voice. It's not just what you say, it's how you say when you speak. Other people radio voice, in addition to listening to your words, things they pay attention include your timing and pace. How loudly use peak, your tone and inflection and sounds that can be understanding. Think about how your tone of voice can indicate sarcasm, anger, affection, and confidence. So all in all, do not ignore the substance. As I mentioned earlier, body language is not everything. Because body language may be extremely important part of your communication. What do you need? Not forget that there is an item at goal for which you are having that communication today. There is an agenda or an intention to putting your message through for achieving a certain purpose out of your conversation. Why did you not overemphasize? It'd be more conscious about the body language as there is a high probability that you may miss out the ultimate goal of your entire conversation. Once again, I would say that it would be a fool's game to try to manage a specific bit of body language. Instead, I would repeat, work on your intent, then your body language will automatically take care of itself. 3. 3 Handling Nervousness: Handling nervousness. Now most of us, even those at the top, struggled with public speaking anxiety. When I ask people what makes them nervous, invariably they respond with almost the same answers. I don't like being watched. I don't like all the eyes glued on me. I don't like being in the spotlight. And it follows that when they get up to speak, nearly all of them initially avoid making eye contact with members of the audience. Therein lies the problem. While our wedding direct eye contact may seem like an effective strategy for coping with speaking anxiety. It actually makes you even more nervous. Being nervous while communicating, while giving a presentation or public speaking is very common. And one needs to understand that it is natural to feel nervous when so many eyes are blue that you let us understand the signs of nervousness and then how to handle them to be at your best whenever you are communicating, freezing. If you're feeling nervous, your body misdirection making you appeared glued to the spot with a frozen during the highlights appearance. What can you do instead? Record yourself and watch out for the parts of your presentation. You look frozen. Is it at the beginning of your presentation as nerves are high, remember to breathe and smile. Stand tall and allow your shoulders to move away from your ears. Plan, prepare, and practice so that you feel comfortable with words and delivery. Stepping backwards when you lack confidence or you're not committed to the words that you're saying. You may take small steps backward as you speak. Even a slight movement is enough. Look as though you are retreating. Audio message becomes less believable. What you can do instead, when you watch yourself on a video, pay attention to any backwards stepping. Instead of stepping backwards when you have an important point to make, you can use forward movement to help and add more emphasis to your point. Rocking. If you stand with your weight on one foot, then transfer it to the other and back again. You may look uncomfortable. While we want to avoid appearing rigid, it is equally distracting towards the speaker who's constantly swing. Practice positioning yourself with a stable, grounded base as your neutral position. Wear comfortable shoes and clothes so that you can stand tall and poised. Fidgeting. This can be not very reassuring for your audience. Any repetitive movements such as playing with jewelry, clicking the top of the pen or jangling keys is fidgeting and irritating to others. Taking action to eliminate this bad habit, really improve your delivery. What can you do instead? Avoid having anything unnecessary on your person? It's a temptation to fiddle. Try to have your hands soft and relaxed by your sites and raise them to gestures when it feels natural to do so. Pacing. If you have lots of energy, you may pace from side-to-side. It is a good thing to have some purposeful movement when you speak. Just avoid random BC back. This is remaining quite still and poised, standing tall and balanced. If you feel the need to pace, then take a few deep breaths and career thoughts and try and resist. As you start to embrace speaking and build your confidence, this grid will automatically disappear. Screen Gazi, a final tell-tale sign of Noah's body language is frequently looking back to a screen. If you're not comfortable, you will look behind as a way to avoid all eye contact or to read from your slides. Your screen is not going anywhere. Your presentation without a screen. Some of the best because I don't use any PowerPoint or use it very sparingly. Set up your equipment so that you can see it without even looking back. Practice making eye contact with the audience members. You will be able to engage more with people. Practice. You can eliminate these nervous body language moves that you can speak with confidence in front of others. Let's observe where we stand. Listen, and observe the best speakers. Now this is a great starting point. Studied the body language that other people are using, especially data people whom you really admire. Take note of how the whole themselves, their tone of voice, and the mannerism that they use. Practice mimicking those non-verbal cues yourself. Now absorb with volume off and start making notes. Now object the same video with volume off and just observe the body language of the speaker. Object the way they use their space, their body posture, their movement, their hand gestures, contacts, et cetera. The right gestures add imagery. Really, do your words. Think about how they talk and add, then add the same way. When you are in a professional situation, you'll feel more confident. You'll think more clearly, naturally punctuate certain words and prisoners and falling into a much better practice self-awareness. One of the first steps you should take to improve your body language is to gain deeper sense of self-awareness. When you're talking to people, are discussing certain topics. Take note of your behaviors and the nonverbal messages you could be sending. By practicing self-awareness, you will know which behaviors to watch out for and which you need to focus on practicing the most. But most importantly, just be yourself, record yourself and observe and repeated. As mentioned earlier, base a camera and record yourself. Listen to yourself and observe your body language. Now, again, observe yourself with volume off and make notes about your observation. Try to incorporate the learning from the best because in your body language and keep observing and repeating the process. With consistent practice, you will start noticing a stark difference in your own body language with time. And last but not the least, analyze, but don't over analyze or analyzing everything interferes with problem-solving. It will cause you to well-worn the problem rather than to look for the solutions. Even simple decisions like choosing what to wear, how to move, how to use your hands, how to stand, can feel like a life or death decision when you are in or tinkle. Ironically, all that thinking won't help you master body language. I understand you are analyzing to work on the factors that you can improve and not to or criticize yourself and downplay amora. 4. 4 Components of Body Language: Components of a good body language. Component of body language. Body language is a critical component of how we communicate and interpret communication by others. However, much of what we do is unconscious. According to a famous article, are unconscious mind are better at reading body language than unconscious mind. In business, the baby communicate can enhance or impede our interactions. Long-term relationships, and economic opportunities for exploring key aspects of body language can only enhance our overall understanding of communication. And when master, give us a competitive edge regardless of the industry, Gestures, Gestures can be related to wobble communication are unrelated to the verbal communication. For instance, you might wave at another person as a way of saying hello. But you do not have to actually say the word out loud for the message to be clear. You might just use your hand gestures to emphasize a key point during the speech on presentation. Hello everybody. In this case, your gesture is related to your verbal communication. Eye contact. It's one of the first levels of connection that you share with another person. It happens before you even say the word eyes, really the window to the soul. Perhaps, yes. Think about your gut reaction to someone who doesn't look you in the eyes while speaking, eye contact is an unambiguous gauge for expressing attentiveness, confidence, and since he edited motor attention to yours, remember your goal is to be congruent. Therefore, your eyes need to confirm and align your message. Facial expression and facial Oregon's on human face indicate facially expressive messages. Facial expression comes naturally. Hence, it is bit difficult being conscious about it. Your face is a major source of expression when communicating with others. It can smile, frown, remain neutral, show anger, disgust, indicate what you want to speak. And even showing this posture. Posture includes how you hold your head, shoulders, legs, arms, and hips. Each of these parts of your body works separately as well as together to send nonverbal cues. Examples include tilting your head, slumping your shoulders in turning your hips sideways, etc. Types of gestures. In this sharp tip, I won't be shared for different types of gestures you need to include in your physical communication. Descriptive gestures, clarify on enhance a wobble message. First, let's start off with the simple one, the descriptive gestures. These are the ones that will help you articulate and communicate something through description. Whether it's showing someone the shape of something odd, even showing them something along the lines that will help them visualize what you want them to understand. That's where descriptive gestures, government good picture for digestion underscores a wobble message. Your next one is your impact gesture. These are the ones that will, whether it's through your face or through your arms and body movement, implies energy and you chose how important something is to you from an emotional perspective. That's the second type of gesture. You want to put it there, suggested gestures, symbols of ideas and emotions. The third type of gesture is basically suggested. It's a suggested gesture to see maybe shrug of the shoulders. Maybe things aren't as important to the point that you're making. It's really again, just helping you put a suggestion. It's not about directly saying something. It just allowing your body and your gestures to suggest ideas to your audience so that they pick up on it. Prompting gestures evoke a desired response. Finally, prompting gestures. These are the ones that are important, particularly as a call to action, because it helps lead people and prompt them to do the next step. The obvious simple on is if you are m seeing an event, you start clapping to prompt audience to start clapping. Now the question is, for your speeches, for your presentations, when you're communicating, what do you want to prompt the people to do next? That's where you think about what kind of gesture would help you achieve that. Now, we've got four types of gestures that you need to be incorporating to get participants. You might speak to influence progress and practice these and get to developing these as a part of assignments they work on. Think about how you can apply the gestures to your communication. Think about importantly, what type of gestures will help you enhance your message. Now let's go ahead and absorb some very common gestures. Openness. Openness begins with the face. The person's eyes are open and white and focused on you. How do I browse, maybe raised, her face is turned towards you. The person may be smiling, nodding, or otherwise signaling positive attitude. Some common observations in an openness gesture include Open Hand, button color, leaning slightly forward in the chair, moving goods or jacket. I'm crossing arms and legs, even moving closer, closed our defensive Closed or negative body language is often called defensive body language. This is when your movement and gestures show you're insecure, closed-off, unapproachable, hostile, part disinterested. Typical gestures include rigid body, arms or legs tightly crossed, eyes, glancing sideways or darting, occasionally, minimal eye contact, and lips burst, fists, clenched, and downcast head. Evaluation evaluation gestures say that the other person is being thoughtful audit considering what you are saying. Sometimes in a friendly way, sometimes in an unfriendly. Typical evaluation gestures include the altered head, hand to the cheek, leaning forward and gently stroking. No business. If you're feeling nervous, your body, Ms. Tiffany, making you appear glued to this part on a micro expression level. When we experience nervousness, facial nerves tend to take on a frozen deer in the headlights appearance. Your listeners may pick up that your tenth and buzzy. This is a lack of confidence. Typical nervously gestures include clearing throat, chain smoking, governing the mouth with the hand, tapping fingers, whistling, visiting, and even twitching lips or face. Suspicion or doubt. These negative emotions are communicated typically by sideways glances, minimal or no eye contact, shifting the body away from the speaker and touching or rubbing the nose. Borden, odd impatience is unproductive. Feelings are usually conveyed by drumming your fingers, gripping the head in the palm of the hand. Put swinging, brushing on picking lint, and looking at your watch or the exit. Some more common gestures may include waving hands for goodbye, shake hands for acceptance or friendship, or struggling shoulders for unconcerned or indifference. Eye contact. If you're talking to someone one-on-one, or looking at people within a group. This part directly between or slightly above the listeners. I, if this doesn't feel comfortable letting your eyes go slightly out of focus, which has the added benefit of softening and relaxing your gaze. You can and should also look at it. Occasionally. Steadying too intensely will make people uncomfortable. Employing these two strategies to improve your eye contact will make your listeners feel more connected to you and increase the likelihood that you will feel more comfortable when speaking. Either do a group or to an individual. To make people feel good and show your interest, you must maintain an eye contact. Keeping eye contact with the person you are talking to shows that you are actively listening and paying attention. The easiest way to maintain eye contact naturally is to look at the person's whole face above the tip of the unknowns. Honest person has a tendency to look use dating dies when speaking. When you look at the person in the eye, you communicate confidence and belief in your point of view. Last but not the least, communicate confidence and belief in your point of view. One of the most powerful means of communicating confidence and conviction is sustained. Focused eye contact tips for making a good eye contact. Establish eye contact at the start. Make eye contact before you even start talking to someone. Use the 5070 rule. Maintain eye contact 50% of the time when speaking and 70% of the time when listening. Breaking eye contact or look for four to five seconds, hold eye contact for about four to five seconds at a time, or about as much time as it takes you to register the color of their eyes. When you break eye contact, glance to the site before, you'd assume your gaze. Move away slowly. When you look away, do it slowly. Looking a bit too quickly can make you appear nervous or shy. Make digestion, break your gaze to make a gesture or two NADH. As this appears more natural than looking away because you have grown uncomfortable with the amount of eye contact. And last but not the least, look very close to the eyes. If looking someone directly in the eyes is too stressful. Instead, look at the spot on their nose, mouth, chin, facial expressions. Facial expressions reflect emotion, feeling, and attitude. That is just so much information and so many expressions that can be conveyed through facial expressions. Think about situations where a person is happy, sad, angry, surprised, shocked, excited in fear, and so on. By simply looking at the person's face. You can immediately tell what they are feeling. Without them having to tell you anything. Without facial expressions, people would be for lack of a better word, robots. What's more? The facial expression for most of the feelings our university, which means that you can tell when a person is happy or angry, even when you don't speak the same language or even when you are from different culture. One of the most common facial indicators of emotion is a smile. A smile indicates that a person is happy, pleased about something. It's also good to note that some smiles are not genuine. Genuine smile should engage the whole face. They can help us express anything from simple joint to extreme sadness or depression. Like any other communication tool using facial expression, experimentation, practice and work, right? Facial expressions, combined with authentic delivery, will move your conversation beyond simple communication to building real connection with the people most important to your success. Apart from the typical facial expressions that express common emotions, there are other MT movements that can tell you what exactly a person is feeling. Pot instance type burst lips may indicate that a person is displeased about something. Biting of the lips may mean that the person is feeling nervous, stressed, or whatever. If you notice a person touching your lips are covering the amount. This is an indicator that they're either lying or trying to prevent you from reading through emotions. Some examples of facial expressions are Smile expresses friendliness, acceptance or interest. These dipoles convey surprise, followed foreheads expressed what he frown me, show dislike or anger. Posture. Sit up straight. Don't slouch. I'm sure we've all heard those admonishing words more than once from a model. When VBA growing up. What is a good posture anyway? And why is it so important? Basically, posture refers to the body's alignment and positioning with respect to the MR. president force of gravity, whether we are standing, sitting, or lying down, that IVD exerts a force on our joints, ligaments and muscles. Good posture and distributing the force of gravity through a body. No one structure is always dressed. You may not absorb your posture, but your audience does. Posture can be used to determine the participants degree of attention or involvement. The difference in status between communicators and the level of fondness a person has for other communicator. Examples of bad postures include slouching, nobody, trusting, and I'm crossing. These nonverbal behaviors can indicate feelings and attitude towards other person. An example of a good posture includes standing erect and leaning forward. This communicates to a person that you're approachable, deceptive, and friendly. Tips for good standing posture. Weight evenly distributed on both feet, which should fit evenly distributed on both feet while standing. If someone could push you at the sternum and easily make you lose balance, then your body isn't fully distributed well on your feet. Your chin should always be parallel to the floor, shoulders, hips, and anchored to align vertically. Looking from the side, your wind up the shoulders, hips, and ankle should line up vertically on top of each other. I align your shoulders properly. Looking at yourself from the front, your left hand, right shoulder should be evenly aligned as should your left and right hip bones. For good sitting posture align yours and shoulders. Yours should always be about the point of your shoulders. Shoulders are relaxed. Ensure that your shoulders are back. Nice and relaxed. Feel flat on the floor with knees, hips, and elbows, bent at 90 degrees. Take frequent breaks. Always take frequent breaks to stand up and move around. 5. 5 Appearance Matters: Importance of appearance. First impressions are very important. They can be about attitude as well as address. Visual impact is at least as important as global impact. Will very quickly make assumptions based on your personal appearance, including your facial expressions, the clothes you wear, how well-groomed you are, and your body language. Dress appropriately for the event. It is important to be suitably dressed within expected limits. You should also ensure that you are appropriately groomed. This does not mean that women have to spend to us putting up makeup before attending an event. It does have a mean that you should be clean, your clothes should be cleaned and iron and dad, your head should be tidy. Nobody expects you to be packaged into something that you are not. However, your appearance and he flex your own self-esteem. You should aim to present yourself to your best possible advantage. Whilst you might casually dressed when you're working within your organization. A more formal approach may well be preferable when representing your organization and an external meeting. Good grooming and tidy appearance is always preferable, whether casually or more formally dressed. It also suggests that you think that you are relatively important, that you matter. And this is important if you wish to be taken seriously. Nobody's going to respect someone who does not look like Davis spec themselves, know your client and their comfort level. This search, if needed, always give a thought to your hairstyle and practice eye contact techniques. You may believe that personal appearance shouldn't matter. You might quite rightly believe that you are much more than the clothes that you wear, or whether you remember to brush your hair that morning or if you look grumpy, it is of course true that each of us is far more than not appearance. However, when we meet someone new, inevitably make judgments about them with nothing else to go on, we realize simply upon the appearance, how you look doesn't matter. Therefore, even if you wish, it did not, you only get one chance to make your first impression. And you always wanted to be the right one. 6. 6 Tips for Effective Body Language: Tips for effective body language. So if you have understood that body language is the way you communicate your feelings with your posture, gestures, facial expressions, and movements. Body language is usually subconscious. Like with practice, you can learn to control your body language and project confidence to those around you. Start with a smile. This should be the easiest thing to do. But for some people it doesn't come that easily and they miss out on the impact. Guess Mike could have on others. It's smiling, has been studied and proven to have positive effect on people. Genuine spine will make you instantly appear more positive and approachable while you interact with people, ******* might be genuine. A genuine smile should create wrinkles at the corner of your eyes. Don't force a smile as your audience will notice it. Let it come naturally. If someone says something funny, smile and laugh, it does nothing to smile or laugh about, then keep a friendly, neutral face. People will be drawn to you if they see that you are a positive, friendly, and approachable person. Maintain posture while standing or sitting. Don't slouch. Those with social anxiety tend to try and take up as little space as possible, which can mean sitting, slumped over in a protective pose. Straighten your back, pull your shoulders away from your ears, and uncross your arms and legs. Maintain eye contact. Steady eye contact shows confidence while avoiding icon tag shows submission, nervousness, and a lack of confidence, especially while speaking. The best way to build strong eye contact is to practice it in everyday situations. That way, when you are in a big moment, it will happen naturally. The biggest mistake you can make is waiting until important moments to start trying to maintain eye contact. It's much easier to just build a habit of it by trying right now and every day. Pay extra attention to your eye contact while talking. Most people can quickly learn to maintain good eye contact while listening, but find it harder to do when speaking. If you practice being aware of your eye contact in every interaction you have, you'll find it very easy to maintain eye contact in high pressure situations where body language counts a lot, be comfortable, relaxed, slow down, and be yourself. Fast movements make you appear more anxious. Everything from hand gestures do you're walking stride can make a difference. So slowdown and notice how you feel more confident. We've discussed posture is earlier, but your gestures and movements are also critical for building strong body language, wrong gestures, head movement, or body movements can make you appear nervous. I'm trustworthy, or even uninteresting. Walk slowly and calmly with a positive and a relaxed look. Move your head slowly and deliberately when looking around. The same tips applies to your feet and body movements to relax, move slowly and walk as if you are calm and unwanted and a ball, just be yourself. Approach with an open body language. And open stance is the one in which none of your limbs are crossed and in which the body is open and free of anybody at. This means that your feet and arms R1 cross and by the side of your body, that you're not placing any object between yourself and the other person. Maintaining an open body language when interacting with people creates a welcoming and confident atmosphere and subconsciously communicate to them that you are honest and trust them. Mirror the body language. When people meet for the first time, they usually look out unconsciously for similarities which indicate whether there is a connection or bond between them to be formed. Middling people's body language is a great way to establish an apple and build a solid relationship with other people. You can mitigate their body language. Choice of words or tone. Metering is naturally. We all do it unconsciously every day as we interact with people we have close relationships with, you can gradually get better I did, and improve your ability to connect and build rapport with your audience. Achieve this. But I certainly two minute and match other people's body language, such as gestures, facial expressions, postures, etcetera. As naturally as you can. Avoid forcing it if you would come off as being mechanical. And also people might notice that you're doing and interpret it as a mockery. You can also meet at people's choice of words. If you notice someone tends to use certain words in an interaction, use these symbols in your response as well. People will gravitate towards you if they feel you have something in common. This will pave the way for future positive interactions with them. Keep your hands, please. Be careful about touching your face or neck. Both are indications that you feel anxious, nervous, auto free, confident people don't make these types of movements. You can use your hands to talk if that is the natural way you do. But make sure you keep your pumps open as you do so, open upward facing pumps demonstrate you have nothing to hide and are confident in what you are seeing. If you're seated at a table or a desk for an interview, keep your hands visible. This switch demonstrate you have nothing to hide. If you add in a chair with nothing in front of you, keep your hands on your lap with bombs visible to indicate openness. Give a firm handshake. How is your handshake? A week or a limp handshake is an obvious sign of lack of confidence. Work on making sure that you offered a firm handshake when meeting others. After practice, it will come naturally. I hope you know that shaking hands makes your memory, but according to a study on handshakes, people are twice as likely to remember you if you shake hands with them. As a professional, you should always try to the memory of your handshake, a positive one, handshake and reveal a lot about the personalities behind it. So having a firm handshake create a positive impression. With a firm handshake. People will always see you as a competent and confident professional. Speak clearly and confidently. The pitch, the volume, and the tone of your voice affects the meaning of the words you see when interacting with people. It applies not only when you're interacting with people in person, but also when you do it or the phone or via writing. The wrong tone of voice when speaking with people can stern negative feelings like doubt, irritation, and angle. No matter what it is that you are saying, it is your tone that reveals how you feel. Use your tone to express one, passion, human empathy, or whatever emotion you want your audience to proceed. For instance, use a soft, sympathetic tone when interacting with customers who are angry or upset. It makes them feel heard and they would likely open up more for you. Your voice is a powerful communication tool. If people liked the voice and how it sounds, they would form the impression that you are confident, knowledgeable, and credible. The volume of your voice can also indicate how confident you are in your response. Be sure to speak clearly and avoid any mumbling. Pay attention to your cadence as well as talking too quickly can confuse people and leave them with more questions than answers. Be conscious of your tone. Tone can dramatically influence how your message comes across. It's important to keep your tone in check, especially even a support case isn't going as planned. Being monotonic can make you seem uninteresting while being too enthusiastic, can make you seem insincere. Find a happy medium with a gadget, professional tone that's friendly and agreeable. And last but not the least, a attire. There's another part of your physical appearance that people are judging almost immediately, whether in person or in video. The way you are dressed. Just like how somebody instantly judges your body language, facial expressions, and posture. They also judged what you read is considered an aspect of nonverbal communication and social significance for the audience. Good dressing will also include things that people wear. Such a duality, dies, handbags at, and glasses, clothing Canvas, non-verbal clues about the speaker's personality, background, and financial students, like it or not, appearance does matter when you're dress and carry yourself in a positive manner. This helps convey to others the business message that you're trying to convey. This is especially important while giving presentations. Whether the audience is just do execute it or thousands, the ending node. Now I wouldn't say practice makes you perfect because perfection is emitted. But practice really makes you better. And more practice makes you more better with time and consistency. So practice these steps, the perfect body language and appear stronger in your conversation. Practice on a video with odd, without an audio. Repeat delay, you start liking it. Send to people whom you can rely upon, golden, and start taking feedback. The board feedback if needed. Don't try to be perfect. Just try to be natural and be yourself. Remember, it's all about your message, which is your ultimate goal. If you practice the tips and ideas about, you'll build strong body language skills that will benefit you in all sorts of everyday situations, including high pressure situations, Video counting on your body language to convey a confident message. You'd be more impressive to your team at work, to an interviewer at a potential new workplace. And anyone else in the room when you speak or enter body language, savvy is becoming part of executives postal prime. Blade leaders sit, stand, walk, and gesture in ways that exude confidence, competence, and status. They also said nonverbal signals of warmth and empathy, especially when nurturing collaborative environments and managing changes. As an executive coach, I've been honored by the impact that body language has on leadership results. Good body language skills can help you motivate direct reports, bond with audience, but as an ideas with added credibility and authentically project, you're busted brand of charisma. That's the powerful set of skills for any leader to develop. Happy learning and stabilised.