Course Overview:
This training course sheds light on ways of recognizing and identifying specific gestures, actions, and expressions that convey and support both the spoken and non- spoken message. By improving your reading of body language, understanding how your body conveys messages, and recognizing how mood and attitude are reflected in your gestures and expressions, you have the upper hand in your interpersonal communications
Target Audience: Public
Course Objectives:
- To recognize different patterns of body language and their interpretations
- To understand the effect of body language on the business environment
- To enhance your body language skills
Course Content:
Part I: In the Beginning Was the Gesture
Defining Body Language
Looking Closer at Non-verbal Gestures
Part 2: Putting the Body into Social and Business Context
Territorial Rights and Regulations
Dating and Mating
Interviewing, Influencing, and Playing Politics
Crossing the Cultural Divide
Reading the Signs
Part 3: Facial Expressions
Communicating Feelings When Words Are Inappropriate
Recognizing Facial Expressions that Reinforce the Spoken Message
Emotions
Expressing a Range of Emotions
Showing happiness
Revealing sadness
Part 4: Interviewing, Influencing, and Playing Politics
Making the First Impression: The Interview
Minimal gestures for maximum effect
Standing tall and holding your ground
Moving with purpose
Pointing Your Body in the Right Direction
Creating a relaxed attitude with the 45 degree angle
Facing directly for serious answers
Picking the power seats
Negotiating Styles
Claiming your space
Displaying confidence
Avoiding nervous gestures.