When we are passionate about something or angry about something, we gesture broadly. So the emotion can actually drive some of that non verbal and verbal behavior you mentioned. In it, you talk about how our faces convey a lot of useful information regarding our power and status. What advice would you give to people who want to be perceived as competent in higher status when all we see is a video representation of our faces? Ank, and the picture i'm looking at of you now, i think is a fabulous example of the lifas you so you practise what you teach.
“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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