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10 Body Language Blunders
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1. A Closed Body
Whether sitting or standing, your body should be loose and open. Do not cross your arms. Do not cross your legs. While you may think it conveys a sense of ease, studies have shown that a people read a closed body differently: they subconsciously think you have something to hide.
What’s more, you’re missing a golden opportunity to send a positive signal. In keeping your body open and your arms spread a little more widely than your torso, you offer your counterpart a “mock hug”. You don’t want to actually hug them (that could be mistake #11!), but this visual cue of a hug antecedent sends the right signal.
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peterjpackiaraj
16 days ago
4 comments
Good article for beginners to improve. and good for me towatch the beginners
verakot
26 days ago
116 comments
Aren't these obvious??
powaz
27 days ago
4 comments
I'm sure it's a stock Getty Image.... Was / is she a model?
PuckDucker
27 days ago
4 comments
Along the lines of stevetuf's comment, an author offering professional advice should really check their grammar and word usage. On slide 5, the sentence begins: "While their may be subtle distinctions,...",
"their" is used incorrectly. The proper word to use is "there". Their connotes ownership while there connotes existence in this case.
AMM
27 days ago
2 comments
Can anybody tell me, who is this on the photo on page 1,
or where I get the information?
Because the person looks like somebody I knew in the past
and lost the contact to her?
stevetuf
27 days ago
12 comments
For a professional article the two typos, "rip of" when it should be "rip off" and "clamy" when it ought to be "clammy" stand out a mile! It's amazing that the author of this article should be allowed to work when other (more meticulous) copywriters are still out!
gilliamrb
27 days ago
2 comments
However, he did point when he said "I did not have..." everybody knows the rest of that speech.
iWorker
27 days ago
14 comments
Whatever you do, don't act natural and be yourself. ;-)