How to control what people think about & around you!!!!!!!!!

Knowledge resource 1882 views 47 replies

 

1) To boost your confidence, assume a power pose

Simply holding your body in expansive, “high-power” poses (leaning back with hands behind the head and feet up on a desk, or standing with legs and arms stretched wide open) for as little as two minutes stimulates higher levels of testosterone — the hormone linked to power and dominance — and lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.

Try this when you’re feeling tentative but want to appear confident. In addition to causing hormonal shifts in both males and females, these poses lead to increased feelings of power and a higher tolerance for risk. The study also found that people are more often influenced by how they feel about you than by what you’re saying.

2) To increase participation, look like you’re listening

If you want people to speak up, don’t multi-task while they do. Avoid the temptation to check your text messages, check your watch, or check out how the other participants are reacting. Instead, focus on those who are speaking by turning your head and torso to face them directly and by making eye contact. Leaning forward, nodding and tilting your head are other nonverbal way to show you’re engaged and paying attention. It’s important to hear people. It’s just as important to make sure they know you are listening.

3) To encourage collaboration, remove barriers

Physical obstructions are especially detrimental to collaborative efforts. Take away anything that blocks your view or forms a barrier between you and the rest of the team. Even at a coffee break, be aware that you may create a barrier by holding your cup and saucer in a way that seems deliberately to block your body or distance you from others. A senior executive told me he could evaluate his team’s comfort by how high they held their coffee cups. It was his observation that the more insecure individuals felt, the higher they held their coffee. People with their hands held at waist level were more comfortable than those with hands chest high.

4) To connect instantly with someone, shake hands

Touch is the most primitive and powerful nonverbal cue. Touching someone on the arm, hand, or shoulder for as little as 1/40 of a second creates a human bond. In the workplace, physical touch and warmth are established through the handshaking tradition, and this tactile contact makes a lasting and positive impression. A study on handshakes by the Income Center for Trade Shows showed that people are two times more likely to remember you if you shake hands with them. The trade-show researchers also found that people react to those with whom they shake hands by being more open and friendly.

5) To stimulate good feelings, smile

A genuine smile not only stimulates your own sense of well-being, it also tells those around you that you are approachable, cooperative, and trustworthy. A genuine smile comes on slowly, crinkles the eyes, lights up the face, and fades away slowly. Most importantly, smiling directly influences how other people respond to you. When you smile at someone, they almost always smile in return. And, because facial expressions trigger corresponding feelings, the smile you get back actually changes that person’s emotional state in a positive way.

6) To show agreement, mirror expressions and postures

When clients or business colleagues unconsciously imitate your body language, it’s their way of nonverbally saying that they like or agree with you. When you mirror other people with intent, it can be an important part of building rapport and nurturing feelings of mutuality. Mirroring starts by observing a person’s facial and body gestures and then subtly letting your body take on similar expressions and postures. Doing so will make the other person feel understood and accepted.

7) To improve your speech, use your hands

Brain imaging has shown that a region called Broca’s area, which is important for speech production, is active not only when we’re talking, but when we wave our hands. Since gesture is integrally linked to speech, gesturing as we talk can actually power up our thinking.

Whenever executives incorporate gestures into their deliveries, I consistently find that their verbal content improves. Experiment with this and you’ll find that the physical act of gesturing helps you form clearer thoughts and speak in tighter sentences with more declarative language.

8) If you want to know the truth, watch people’s feet

When people try to control their body language, they focus primarily on facial expressions, body postures and hand/arm gestures. And since the legs and feet are left unrehearsed, they are also where the truth can most often be found. Under stress, people will often display nervousness and anxiety through increased foot movements. Feet will fidget, shuffle and wind around each other or around the furniture. Feet will stretch and curl to relieve tension, or even kick out in a miniaturized attempt to run away. Studies show that observers have greater success judging a person’s real emotional state when they can see the entire body. You may not know it, but instinctively you’ve been reacting to foot gestures all your life.

9) To sound authoritative, keep your voice down

Before a speech or important telephone call, allow your voice to relax into its optimal pitch (a technique I learned from a speech therapist) by keeping your lips together and making the sounds “um hum, um hum, um hum.” And if you are a female, watch that your voice doesn’t rise at the ends of sentences as if you are asking a question or seeking approval. Instead, when stating your opinion, use the authoritative arc, in which your voice starts on one note, rises in pitch through the sentence and drops back down at the end.

10) To improve your memory, uncross your arms and legs

When a group of volunteers attended a lecture and sat with unfolded arms and legs, they remembered 38 percent more than a group that attended the same lecture and sat with folded arms and legs. To improve your retention, uncross your arms and legs. And if you see your audience exhibiting defensive body language, change tactics, take a break, get them to move — and don’t try to persuade them until their bodies open up.

If you follow these ten simple and powerful body language tips, I guarantee you’ll increase your nonverbal impact in 2013.

Replies (47)

Awesome Sharing........................Nice explain how to live in between people.......Useful to all

 

Thanx for sharing Juhi ji

VERY NICE AND TRUE ALSO...smiley

Originally posted by : *CA Deepak Dargad

Awesome Sharing........................Nice explain how to live in between people.......Useful to all

 

Thanx for sharing Juhi ji

 

Originally posted by : Anamikaa Shuklaa




Originally posted by : *CA Deepak Dargad






Awesome Sharing........................Nice explain how to live in between people.......Useful to all

 

Thanx for sharing Juhi ji






 

Way to go GAL!!!!!!!!

Originally posted by : Juhi Agarwal

Way to go GAL!!!!!!!!

 

Wat dat mean??????

 

I highlight dat bcoz if i said dat, u said to me.........

 

but bro said to u ........ u didnt say anythng........

Originally posted by : Anamikaa Shuklaa




Originally posted by : Juhi Agarwal






Way to go GAL!!!!!!!!






 

Wat dat mean??????

 

I highlight dat bcoz if i said dat u say to me.........

 

but bro said to u ........ u didnt say anythng........

Very well.......My Apologies.......

Good one.!

No harm in adding "Ji"after name...its just a respect...!

Originally posted by : I.S.K.P

Good one.!

No harm in adding "Ji"after name...its just a respect...!

Uhhh......I dun wan 2 tell d whole world abt this topic.....so i would suggest to drop it......

It's really helpful yr

thanks for sharing itsmiley

Originally posted by : Juhi Agarwal

Very well.......My Apologies.......

 

Its ok dear...........Small smiley graphics

 

FB Chat Smiling emoticon

very good and helpful one...!!

If i m not wong Juhi you are more into human psychology

Good sharingenlightened. Thank you very muchyes. And I would also like to say something in this respect.

 

"If you keep yourself busy thinking what others might think about you, you can never relax. So if you want to do something, just do it at any cost without even bothering about the consequences and no matter whatever the circumstances are. Because the real happiness is when what you say and what you do, are in agreement with what are you thinking."

Originally posted by : Aanya

very good and helpful one...!!

If i m not wong Juhi you are more into human psychology

Sure.....i have this bad habit of tryin to read people......

Originally posted by : Shrikant

Good sharing. Thank you very much. And I would also like to say something in this respect.

 

"If you keep yourself busy thinking what others might think about you, you can never relax. So if you want to do something, just do it at any cost without even bothering about the consequences and no matter whatever the circumstances are. Because the real happiness is when what you say and what you do, are in agreement with what are you thinking."

Sure....thats one way of lookin at things.......Bt i m not sure you are even getting wat i m sayin here.......


CCI Pro

Leave a Reply

Your are not logged in . Please login to post replies

Click here to Login / Register