From the course: Communicating with Confidence (2015)
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Using your eyes
- You can tell a lot about how a person feels or what it is they're thinking simply by observing how they use their eyes. You can tell a person's level of connection to an audience or their subject for that matter again by observing their eyes. When a person's eyes are flitting around barely connecting with other eyes, it likely means the speaker is deep inside their own head probably experiencing racing brain syndrome struggling to get their brain and tongue in sync as reflected in eyes that constantly move. When our eyes dart around, it makes us look nervous or hesitant, lacking in confidence. So instead, use your eyes to show your confidence. To have good eye contact during conversations, meetings and presentations, deliver one thought to one face at one time and hold your eyes for a second or so to confirm the thought was caught then as if to say thank you very much for engaging, now I'll go to the other side of the room. Move to another face to deliver your thought and so on and…
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