I've read many books in my lifetime, but there is one that made me look at things completely different. The book is titled Speak, and is written by Laurie Halse. It made me see how real depression, PTS and rape are. It made me look through Melinda's eyes/mind and how she couldn't take to anyone about her problems, so instead she bottled everything up. It showed me to talk about these painful things and if someone doesn't listen, find someone that…
In the novel Speak, Laurie Halse Anderson, utilizes Melinda’s non-verbal communication, to convey the significance of Melinda’s isolated emotions that are damaging her relationships. Primarily, Anderson writes that Melinda is finding different ways to come across her point of hopelessness and despair, little does she know she is falling into a deeper hole by slowly losing the people around her. Correspondingly, Melinda’s sorrowful state of mind is leading Melinda to fall right back where she started, causing her to stay out of the social scene.…
By providing relevant training to employees. Using simple and clear words. Jargons should be avoided. Reduce or eliminate any noise level. Listen attentively and as carefully as you can.…
In June of 2012 Cuddy started off her speech Your Body Language Shapes Who You are at TEDGlobal with an attention grabbing statement, and then asked her audience to survey their own posture. A good presenter always starts their speech off with an attention grabbing statement, quote or story (Koegel, 43). By physically engaging her audience at the beginning of her speech she was able to immediately capture their attention. I did not hear an exact purpose statement from Cuddy within the first five minutes of her speech, but she did make a credibility statement. Cuddy claimed that she was a credible source of information because she was a social physiologist, and taught at a competitive business school.…
The first step of communication presented during Michelle Winner’s interaction with Casey is that we must think about the people we are going to communicate with. This means that we must consider the perspectives of our communicative partners. For example, before talking to Casey Michelle considered that Casey is a high school student who is attending the same conference as her. Secondly, Michelle said that we must establish our physical presence. This means that we must turn our body toward the person with whom we are communicating with and make sure that we are within an appropriate proximity of them.…
Summary of Amy Cuddy: Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are June 2012 Amy Cuddy gave a TED Talk called “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” in June 2012 and her thesis of the speech is that our body language have an effect on our strength/weakness and that society should “Fake it till we become it.” In Cuddy’s speech, she explains the importance of body language and accomplishing goals. She informs the audience about how we analyze and judge people based on their body language.…
I translated this into my business life using the same techniques to identify different hand gestures, postures, and facial movement in order to determine emotions and if a person likes what they hear or if the person believes in what they say to me. I very much enjoy the different take Amy Cuddy had on body language. She asked…
After noticing the speaker’s confidence during the speech, it became clear that his calmness and ability to speak clearly, his ability to refer to his notes and to use the power point at the same time and also his ability to ensure he was the source of the information he was giving made his delivery good. This informative speech could have been improved with more body movement during the transitions and a good eye contact with the…
Distinctive nonverbal techniques employed by Obama strengthened his portrayal of a successful persuasive speech. His ability to maintain constant eye contact with the audience represented a genuine message, which contributed to gaining the trust of voters. This presentation technique gave Obama the additional advantage of being able to sweep his eye contact across the entire audience, enthralling the whole arena. Through the use…
Non-verbal communication Non-Verbal Communication is a way in which information or feelings are transmitted to another person without being spoken or written. It can be defined ‘Behaviour and elements of speech aside from the words themselves that transmit meaning’ (Business Dictionary, 2014). The first non-verbal communication is posture. Posture is the way in which a person sits or stands which can send messages to people in their company.…
I learned new things about how I am portraying myself to others through verbal and non-verbal communication. The video, “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are” by Amy Cuddy described the differences between power-dynamics among people. As a future employee, I need to be aware of these skills when going into interviews. The video made me more conscious of how I utilize non-verbal skills. Generally, communication is conveyed through confidence or anxiety.…
While speaking, I have always stood very still in one place. There were some instances during the semester where I would make motions with my hands while presenting, however I still stood very still. I think I had a hard time improving this skill because I was always too nervous to move. Luckily, I have improved on my public speaking apprehension, so from now on I should be able to focus on improving my nonverbal delivery skills. Overall, communication class has helped me improve as a public speaker, which will be greatly beneficial in the years to come.…
Don’t contradict yourself. ”- Allen Ruddock I’m considering body language and why we find it very important to use to have an effective conversation. I’m looking to the difference between verbal and non-verbal communications, the top…
In his book, Floyd emphasizes nonverbal communication as the “behaviors and characteristics that convey meaning without the use of words” (179). Before this lesson, I didn’t notice that regular people use nonverbal communication as much as nonverbal people. Nonverbal communication provides a better connection between two individual. Unlike normal communication, nonverbal communication requires us to observe the partner’s facial expression and body language than just words. Therefore, we understand our partner feeling and emotion better.…
In face-to-face interactions, our style of communication includes both verbal and nonverbal cues. Author, B. Strong (2014), reports: “Even when you are not talking, you communicate by your silence (e.g., an awkward silence, a hostile silence, or a tender silence) (Strong, 2014, p. 232).” On the other hand, phone conversations, online and electronic interactions are restricted only to verbal communication through written words.…