From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
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Handling nervousness
From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
Handling nervousness
- One of the best ways to manage nerves, and our body language, is through strong hand gestures. Yet, when we speak in front of others, how many of us are truly mindful of our body language, or our facial expression, or vocal inflection? Communicating with confidence means having the ability to manage our body language instead of having it manage us. You see, in stressful moments, anxiety finds a way to express itself. People experience what I call body language leakage. Body language leakage reveals our unease, and comes out in different ways. And usually we give off what are called tells. A tell is an indicator that the person speaking is very uncomfortable. Examples of tells include speaking quickly, fidgeting, touching our glasses, our hair, or we use throwaway words like you know, or like. One tell to be mindful of is the one I refer to as the swallow. The swallow has us gulping (gulps) involuntarily when we're nervous. And as soon as other people see the swallow, they know we're…
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