Have you ever felt that ‘what’ and ‘how’ you say matters? Did you ever realize that our body speaks a lot about us?
Body language is the way to communicate with others nonverbally and with correct postures, gestures, and eye movement you may send out a message with more positivity.
Both your personal and professional life get highly impacted with how you communicate with others.
There are several instances that a business communication happens better when a verbal and visual communication takes place clubbed with a set of nonverbal actions. The level of understanding and retention increases.
When you communicate with your stakeholders, co-workers, target audiences, or consumers a positive body language ensures your dominance.
What is Body language? How is it important?
Speaking face to face in person or in video conferences is a stronger and more effective way to communicate with others even in this age of emails, chats, and text messages. It helps to create better rapport and engage with others more productively. But why so?
The leaders all over the world focus more on face to face interactions as this gives them a chance to send out and receive messages through nonverbal cues properly known as body language. The level of engagement can be understood through postures, vocal tone, facial expressions, eye contacts and so on.
The movement of hands, smile, eye contacts, and other elements of body language can speak a lot about you and be the prime factors for establishing ‘trustworthiness’, ‘friendliness’, ‘agreeableness’ or ‘power’.
If the words you speak does not match with your body language, then you may be wrongly perceived by others.
Your body language can
- Provide information about the real thoughts and perceptions
- Can express emotions
- Can either contradict or support a verbal message
- Can replace the oral communication at times
- Influence others
- Regulates the flow of message
A positive body language can create a positive impression in almost no time. Try and see how the practice of positive attitude can better your body language and hence help you carry a better personality; help grow leadership abilities, promote better coordination and discipline and impress others easily.
According to some business leaders, we may overcome the barriers to communication through a positive body language.
How do you improve your body language?
You, being a small or a giant business owner, an entrepreneur or a professional, should practice to better your communication skills through improvement of your body language. A business meeting or a presentation to a set of audience, or communication with boss or subordinates or co-workers may turn out effective or successful only if you follow the following tips:
- A calm face with a smile can help elevate your personality and create a positive ambiance. Your customer, or client or co-worker feels relaxed and engaged and this would help to discuss more productively. If you smile more frequently, you get more confidence and promote assertive communication.
- A stress-free approachable appearance can be attained and help avoid misunderstanding if there is no frown on face.
- A frequent eye contact can help establish trustworthiness and interest.
- Cross hands and legs can show lack of interest and confidence. Speaking with open arms can help establish openness and engage others better.
- A good handshake or a warm ‘Namaste’ can spread friendliness and warmth and encourage collaboration.
However, some gestures and postures may originate due to socio cultural and religious influence and should be understood and should be handled intelligently.
A good body language can show status, confidence, warmth, and strong leadership abilities.
Your body language is a mirror of your personality.
Once you practice decoding the nonverbal messages, you can enrich yourself and start sending messages of your choice about yourself. The brand of your business and of you as a person can be built and established with right practice of good body language.
Good luck with body language practice …wish you happy communications.
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