How you frame yourself also matters. You should take up half the screen and not sitting too far away. If i can't see your face cause you're too far away, or you're sitting in the dark that actually makes oulook more suspicious, less powerful. I think you would do all of the things that we've talked about regardless of whom you're talking to, if you want your message to be heard.
“Simple language, forceful language, vivid language, and keeping it simple and direct,” says Professor Jeffrey Pfeffer, are all tools to increase the strength of your communication. In this episode of Think Fast, Talk Smart, host and lecturer Matt Abrahams interviews Jeffrey Pfeffer, author of Dying for a Paycheck, about the verbal and nonverbal ways we can harness, or give away, our authority in communication.
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