From the course: Communicating Nonverbally
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Your nonverbal communication challenge
From the course: Communicating Nonverbally
Your nonverbal communication challenge
- Learning how to leverage you nonverbal communication is like harnessing an untapped superpower. Most of us focus all of our attention on the words we use. But how we say something might be just as important as what we say. I have two challenges for you. First is a decoding challenge. In the next week, see if you can play body language I spy. Can you spot all the nonverbal cues we learned in the course in real life or on TV? A head tilt, a triple nod, nonverbal enthusiasm. Remember, head, shoulders, knees and toes, knees and toes. A lean-in, a touch, a distancing behavior, a blocking behavior, a shame gesture, anxious movement, a pacification gesture. Download the exercise file to keep this list with you and check them off as you see them. My last challenge is our encoding challenge. This one is a little harder. What kind of cues are you sending to others, more micropositives or more micronegatives? Try to record…
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