Ate: Are there specific non verbal behaviors, or body language, if you will, that we can employ to be seen as more powerful in having higher status? Ate: We give away our power by tilting our heads. And on the contrary, you have power to the extent that you look people in the eye and stand up to your full height. The father of two tenatures says he's a big fan of "The Godfather," one of his favorite movies.
“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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