Most working professionals, executives and senior leaders in particular, will have to give a major presentation at some point in their career. Since it’s difficult for most people to view themselves ...
A few years ago, I was giving a presentation to the CEO of a financial services company, outlining a speech on “Leadership Presence” I was scheduled to deliver to his organization the next day. And it ...
When you stand on stage and speak to a crowd, the old rules apply: posture, use your hands for emphasis, speak clearly and not too fast. Guess what, folks? That applies to video meetings as well, ...
We all understand the importance of body language at work—the way that a colleague's crossed arms might convey hostility or a manager's feet on the desk might be an attempt to show dominance. But how ...
Emotional intelligence is defined as the ability to understand the way people feel and react and to use this skill to make good judgments and to avoid or solve problems, according to the Cambridge ...
Why do we bother with the hard and imprecise work of trying to understand body language? After all, we’re already experts at it, more or less, with our unconscious minds, and those unconscious minds ...
Many workers are heading into their fourth year of remote or hybrid work — but another year of flexibility means another year of video meetings, a medium where people are still struggling to ...
In the intricate dance of business meeting negotiations, the nuances of communication become the fulcrum on which decisions balance. For the astute entrepreneur, understanding body language is not ...
Verbal communication is usually straightforward. You open your mouth and say what you want to say. Communication doesn’t only happen verbally. As you speak or listen, you also express feelings and ...