In the classes i teach, we talk about being big, balanced and still to demonstrate presence. Absoly, let's switch from non verbal to verbal. Are ther specific verbal behaviours we can employ to be seen as more powerful or having higher status? And are there things that we should avoid saying so?"
“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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