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Make Your Body Language Coherent With Your Message
Non verbal communication is important to reinforce your message and conflicting signals can cause lack of trust or confusion.
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Start With The End In Mind
What do you hope will happen at the end of the meeting? Start the meeting expressing what is on your mind and clarifying what is your purpose. Prepare ahead thinking about the actions that will need to be performed to achieve this purpose and make sure to discuss them.
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Get Feedback
Make sure your ideas have been fully understood and that everyone is happy with how the meeting went.
In a more informal setting:
- What do you think of what I said here?
- What did you think of the meeting?
- In a more personal discussion, you may ask: What do you thin...
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Respond Appropriately
Balance making the other person comfortable with sharing your goals.
Pay attention to sentence structure:
- If you want clarity use the past + you: “What did you mean by what you just said?”
- to show forcefulness use present + I/me: “I need,” “I like” and “I want.”
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Be Open And Listen Carefully
- Speak from your own Point of view.
- Note down the exact words people say so that they feel heard when you recap. When you don’t fully understand follow up.
- Be open and follow up offline to clarify any doubt or unclear item.
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Body Language
While body language cues can offer clues to deceptions, it is often not good enough. More accurate signals are:
- Intentionally leaving out important details.
- If the person seems unsure or insecure.
- Shrugging, lack of expression, and a bored posture.
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Body Language
Most of us know that we should not frown or keep our arms crossed on a first date (or pick our nose, for that matter), but there are other things that help in non-verbal communication on a Zoom call:
- Lean forward by placing your elbow on your desk, showing that you are interested.
Six things every message needs
- It's one idea. Focus your idea on the one point you want your audience to buy into. Too many ideas will produce confusion.
- You can express it in a single, clear sentence. If your message is more than one sentence or a long sentence, your l...
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