Learning Guide #2

How to Use Body Language and
Gestures as a Speaker

If you’re interested in persuading people through your speeches and presentations, you’d better be paying close attention to your nonverbal communication. Customers, clients, jurors, constituents—and any other key stakeholders among your audiences—are making decisions about you and your message based on your body language and gestures when you speak. Knowing what your body is saying, and how people are reacting to you through their own nonverbal clues, is critical information affecting your influence and your bottom line. This 11-page report shows you how to make sure that the messages you broadcast physically will increase your credibility, authority, and persuasiveness in the minds of your listeners.

Topics:

  • The Concept of “Visual Performance”
  • Why You Need to Use Gestures
  • Being Comfortable With Your Physical Expression
  • The Answer to the Question: “What Do I Do With My Hands?”
  • The Critical First 60 Seconds
  • Learning How to Command Space
  • Responding to the Location and Situation
  • Being Yourself . . . Your Committed Self
  • Skills Building

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