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Digg it UP - What is Body Language
Not so long ago, small businesses and non-profit organizations across the board were faced with a tough question: do we need a Web site? We know the answer to that as the majority of small businesses and non-profits offer effective sites that not only provide information but can sell products, accept online donations, and raise awareness.The new question facing them now is: Do we need to hire a PR agency?Unfortunately, though many small businesses and organizations would like to retain a PR firm, the cost just doesn’t fit into the budget. Well, that do
How much more fundamental can you get than this? As a business, non-profit or association manager, if you don’t get your most important outside audiences on your side, you will fail.To me, failure means key target audiences that don’t behave as you want them to. For example, capital donors or specifying sources who look the other way, customers who fail to make repeat purchases, community leaders working closely with your competitors, prospects still doing business with others, organizations looking elsewhere to propose new strategic alliances and joint ventu
Humans have the tendencey to communicate with each other. This can happen in obvious and in not so obvious ways. We speak, we write. However, we can also communicate without even using words at all. If words are used to communicate content, this nonverbal communication speaks about our relatishonsips. This is probably even more important than getting the message across. We are meta-communicating - communicating about communication! When words just don’t do it
When we are talking to a person we also need to make it clear how the content of our message is to be interpreted. The way we do this speaks about the relationship we have to this person, or at least the way we think of this person. Words cannot do this. It is easier to show than it is to speak about our emotions. The meaning of our words is created throguh body language. In the de Saussurian meaning this langue (in opossed to the parole) is used for nonverbal communication. We use it all the time. Most of the time we are not even aware of using it. Touching somebody during the conversation means something completely different than not touching our partner in conversation. It is just not possible to communicate without using non-verbal language - written word is the only exception.
Are we aware?
Most of the body language is communicated on an unconscous level. Yet it has an extensive influence to the quality of our message. From this we can conclude that it would be a good idea to become conscious of our - and what is of even greater importance - other’s body lingo.
We can learn to use our body language for a purpose and to understand the body language of others. We also have to be aware that body language is interpreted culturaly - its meanings differ in different cultures. The interpretaion depends on the situation, the culture, the relationship we have with the person as well as the gender of the other. What this means is that not a single signal of our body has the same meaning in all parts of the globe. This is an important point and should be taken into account. The language of our body is integrally connected to the spoken language and our complete behavioural pattern. With all this put together, various signals can also complement each other to strengthen the meaning of what we communicate. Some social groups have devloped a specific body language which is very explicit because the us
Is it possible to use advertising to create a trend? Can we use advertising to start a social movement? Can advertising be used to get the ball rolling and change the way our society works? Advertising to create a trend is possible and it is done more often than you think. Specially placed advertising in the form of public-relations, public service announcements and or political advertising is often used to create trends.What is a trend? A trend is a change in a social movement, which takes about 7% of the people or more to start. It is easy to see how t
When we are talking to a person we also need to make it clear how the content of our message is to be interpreted. The way we do this speaks about the relationship we have to this person, or at least the way we think of this person. Words cannot do this. It is easier to show than it is to speak about our emotions. The meaning of our words is created throguh body language. In the de Saussurian meaning this langue (in opossed to the parole) is used for nonverbal communication. We use it all the time. Most of the time we are not even aware of using it. Touching somebody during the conversation means something completely different than not touching our partner in conversation. It is just not possible to communicate without using non-verbal language - written word is the only exception.
Are we aware?
Most of the body language is communicated on an unconscous level. Yet it has an extensive influence to the quality of our message. From this we can conclude that it would be a good idea to become conscious of our - and what is of even greater importance - other’s body lingo.
We can learn to use our body language for a purpose and to understand the body language of others. We also have to be aware that body language is interpreted culturaly - its meanings differ in different cultures. The interpretaion depends on the situation, the culture, the relationship we have with the person as well as the gender of the other. What this means is that not a single signal of our body has the same meaning in all parts of the globe. This is an important point and should be taken into account. The language of our body is integrally connected to the spoken language and our complete behavioural pattern. With all this put together, various signals can also complement each other to strengthen the meaning of what we communicate. Some social groups have devloped a specific body language which is very explicit because the u
As you will soon find out when looking for a position in a new field is to quantify the skills (tasks that you are particularly good at) and then communicating them in either written or verbal form to a new employer.By matching your skills to those that are used in a variety of different works settings may be able to help you match your skills which would result in you finding the right position for you.Firstly you need to actually determine what skills you have and will help in ensuring that you become the candidate who will get the job that you have
Are we aware?
Most of the body language is communicated on an unconscous level. Yet it has an extensive influence to the quality of our message. From this we can conclude that it would be a good idea to become conscious of our - and what is of even greater importance - other’s body lingo.
We can learn to use our body language for a purpose and to understand the body language of others. We also have to be aware that body language is interpreted culturaly - its meanings differ in different cultures. The interpretaion depends on the situation, the culture, the relationship we have with the person as well as the gender of the other. What this means is that not a single signal of our body has the same meaning in all parts of the globe. This is an important point and should be taken into account. The language of our body is integrally connected to the spoken language and our complete behavioural pattern. With all this put together, various signals can also complement each other to strengthen the meaning of what we communicate. Some social groups have devloped a specific body language which is very explicit because the u
Most business owners, along with most salespeople, understand the value of relationship building in securing customer loyalty and consistent long-term repeat business. Unfortunately, many are not aware of the 'cornerstone technique' that must be present to sustain this ongoing loyalty.It forms part of, the all important, integrity issue. I am not referring to what most people consider when the think of integrity, which is often equated with 'honestly'. However, it is very closely related. I am referring to 'consistenc
We can learn to use our body language for a purpose and to understand the body language of others. We also have to be aware that body language is interpreted culturaly - its meanings differ in different cultures. The interpretaion depends on the situation, the culture, the relationship we have with the person as well as the gender of the other. What this means is that not a single signal of our body has the same meaning in all parts of the globe. This is an important point and should be taken into account. The language of our body is integrally connected to the spoken language and our complete behavioural pattern. With all this put together, various signals can also complement each other to strengthen the meaning of what we communicate. Some social groups have devloped a specific body language which is very explicit because the u
Outsourcing is the latest phenomena in today’s worldThe 5 W’s of outsourcing are:Who can outsource?What can be outsourced?Why should it be outsourced?When do we have to outsource?Where do we outsource?Virtually everyone can outsource be it a small, medium or big business house. Anything related to web designing, web development, B2B, B2C to name a few functions that can be outsourced. While outsourcing, we generally get a competitive edge without investing in infrastructure.
Feelings matter
Body language is used especially to express feelings. For instance if we are fond of someone, it is often difficult to say that directly to the person. It is, on the other hand, easier to make our feelings clear (intentionally or unintentionally) through body language. The opposite is also true. We may say that we ARE angry through words yet our body language may be saying loud and clear that we are NOT. This can be very confusing for the recipientof the message. The situation is usually described as giving out double messages - one message in words and an opposite message in body language. It is also difficult to lie or cover up our feelings through body language. We may give their true feelings away by not being aware of their body language. Research has shown that most people pay more attention to, and believe more readily, their impression of how a person acts through body language than what is said through words. As a consequence we tend to doubt, or put a question mark behind, the spoken words if they do not correspond with the language of the body .
Awareness of how we communicate = Vital
Only a small part of how we come across to another person is decied by the words we speak (according to research, less than 5%). It is of vital importance that we know and (to a certain extent) control our body language. The recipient of our body language will have a feeling that is often difficult to describe, to put into words or to prove that something was communicated. But it was. We have all surely said to ourselves: ‘I think he/she does not like me’ or ‘I do not really believe what was said’. It is called intuition and body language plays a very big role as it gives us messages about the other person that we can interpr
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