Body Language for Beginners

The way our body gives out different various signals is derived from the way our brain is thinking, feeling or intending to do at any given point in time. In this lecture, we are going to be seeing exactly which part of the brain is responsible for this and how we give out different responses and with an aim that how we can extend the same logic to understand various different signals.

While dissecting body language, one of the body part which we pay the most attention to is our hands. In this lecture we would be understanding why do we pay so much attention to the hands and why do they matter so much.

As we evolve from reptiles to apes to humans that we are today, our nonverbal communicators became more stronger. The skin that we have became much more flexible and thin which meant we could flash a lot many more combinations of expressions on our faces. In this lecture we would be discussing the facial expressions which we as humans are capable to make and the emotions they lead to.

In this lecture we would be discussing all the different body parts expect the ones we covered previously, what they signal and how crucial they are in forming our body language.

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In the last lecture we discussed  various different aspects of the Cue Connect model.  In this lecture we will be discussing the remaining ones.

As individuals, we all have our unique style of communication. We also have those are called as idiosyncratic displays. These are those kind of behaviours which are unique from one individual to another. In this lecture we will be discussing the unique individual signals that is termed as baseline behaviour of an individual.

We have already discussed the various different aspects of the Cue Connect Model and tried to understand how the person sitting across in front of us reveals his state of mind through his different body signals. Before we conclude our discussion on observation, there are a few details that we would like to highlight again because they matter when we are trying to understand what the body language truly reveals to us.

Till now we have discussed the meaning of different body signals and tried to see how to put them together to make sense what the body language of the person sitting across in front of us means and communicates and how to apply these learnings and put them to use in our style of communication.

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Is there a particular way in which using our nonverbal communication we can leave a lasting impression  on our audience during our presentations. Is it necessary for us to be a skilled trainer or a full time host who wants to learn this strategies? Not Really!! Even during presenting before boss in our daily meetings or in MBA class presenting in front of our friends, we would want to make an impact while we are presenting, so in this lecture we would be studying various strategies of how we can present with impact.

In this lecture we will be discussing how to make the best of conversations which we have with business partners, work colleagues, clients and even family. There are different strategies which we will be discussing broadly divided in three steps- listening actively, building rapport and showing empathy. In this lecture, let us begin with "Listening Actively".

Master negotiators, police force from the hostage negotiations teams and those whose work depends on taking a lot of high stake decisions are taught that if there is one way of weighing scales in their favour it's by building genuine connect with the people with whom they are conversing. In the last class we already discussed about how listening actively can play a vital role, in this class we will be discussing about the other strategies.

We now embark on the 5th part of our course - Social Situations, situations which are not just limited to one or two meetings or one - two hours of interaction with each other. These are situations where interactions run much deeper which is why we want to understand people and interact back with them with using a lot more different body language strategies. In this lecture we therefore start with Understanding Emotions.

Our tendency to guard our personal space between the strangers gets even worse when we attend networking events because these are events where we not only want to establish connections with people but also ensure that there remember us for a long time after the event is done with. How do we network better with people? How do we socialise and ensure that we leave lasting impressions on people, that is exactly what we are going to cover in this lecture.

We have discussed previously how our nonverbal displays are much more comfortable and relaxed when we are at home with our family and people we love v/s when we are in the workplace. That is the topic for discussion in this lecture.

Imbibing each and every individual with the organisation with what we call nonverbal intelligence is necessary so that most of us can understand our colleagues better. In various different roles it is necessary for people to get their nonverbals sharpened. We will be discussing how do we do this in this lecture.

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The entire human civilisation co exists because somewhere or the other we are putting trust in people around us. What happens when we put the trust at risk? That is what we are going to discuss in this lecture. What makes us lie and is it possible to be able to know just from the nonverbal of the people across from us whether they are lying or not.

The topic for this lesson comes after having spent a lot of time  discussing nonverbal communication with workshop participants as well as personal clients. In this lecture we will be discussing what are the common myths that people face  as far as body language is concerned.

We have discussed on and off that observation is the key to understanding people better specially when it comes to nonverbal communication. In today's class, we will be discussing simple ways of increasing our skills of observation.

Is it possible to focus on the words as well as nonverbal signals together, not only while observing others around but even when we are trying to introspect. We will be knowing about this in detail in today's lecture!