Public Speaking Tips: Persuasive Posture

Public Speaking Tips: Persuasive Posture

Jul. 15, 2007 by

Body language talks, or BLT for short. Something in the way we stand speaks volumes.  Good posture is not only good health, it looks good.  Why? Good posture communicates self-confidence and belief in what you have to say.  It indicates

Presentation Tips: Think Forest, Not Trees

Presentation Tips: Think Forest, Not Trees

Jul. 9, 2007 by

If you want to position yourself as a high-status individual with the capacity to lead, consider this:  Power comes from abstraction, not from facts. According to recent research in the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, abstract thinkers feel less constrained by

Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects

Communication Skills Training: Facial Dialects

Jul. 1, 2007 by

Traveling to a foreign country, we will have trouble communicating with the locals if we don’t speak their language.  We may also have trouble reading their facial expressions. Hillary Elfenbein of the University of California at Berkeley has done a study