(Editor's note: I had to miss this dynamic presentation about women speakers and body language, but colleague Debbie Friez -- an officer of Washington Women in Public Relations, the event convener, and vice president at BurrellesLuce -- sent in this guest post about the event, emphasizing tips Eloquent Woman readers can use.) Body language expert, Janine Driver , aka “The Lyin’ Tamer”, is calling 2009 “The Year of the Woman”, and she has made it her goal to help women be aware of their body language. Speaking at the February 24 Washington Women in

toward us with open gestures, for example, they’re usually signaling openness. Hands speak an endless and fascinating language; they are marvelous little Many books on body language purport to give specific meanings We cross our arms, to pick a simple example, because we’re What can hand gestures tell us about openness?  0160; Not those obvious one like the peace signal, or the middle finger. 

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Every communication is two conversations, the content and the body language.  0160; The President has great stillness in his body; this is charismatic and signals confidence, because it’s at once poised and yet relaxed enough to show that his nerves haven’t got the better of him.  0160; While he occasionally got the gesture right -- as for example when he talked about the overlap in views between Muslim and Christian he overlapped his hands quite naturally – most 0160; When the two are aligned, a speaker can be powerful – even charismatic.  0160;

for expansion, for example.   In the body language.  trying to consciously monitor the constantly changing body signals of a roomful of with a great percentage of human interactions where you need to monitor body language We are all unconscious experts in in

Which is no surprise to those of us who study body language. Here’ are a few facts I found while researching my book, “The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work.” The “thumbs up” gesture in North America is one example). by Carol Kinsey Goman, PhD

For example, if you are conveying excitement about a point or topic in your speech, show it in your face such as with a big smile. If you are excited and don’t show it, your body language sends a negative message. The approach-Your body begins to move in anticipation. * from “ 10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking ” (Chapter Chapter 5 - pages 107 - 110) Copyright,

build commitment, and they know that the mind follows the body.   body language, indicating a decision has been made. agitation, discordant body language, and attempts to leave.   excess of agreement, positive body language, and superficial attempts at commitment. For the final blog in this series, I'm focusing on commitment.  0160; This is the moment that you close the sale, ink the deal, get the job, get the 'go ahead'. 

When teaching young children the fundamentals of public speaking there are two important areas you can work on every day: Vocal skills and body language.   If you enunciate clearly, vary your pace from slow to fast and use expressive pitch and inflection you will heighten your child’s interest in the story and teach these important vocal skills by example.   ·          Emphasize key words: When words in the story are colorful, descriptive and emotional, use added stress to make them sound dramatic. Part 2 of 2     In Part 1 of this

Jerry’s book The Power Presenter has many tips on connecting with the audience but what it has–that no other book to date does–are real historic video examples. He compares and contrasts many historical examples of presentations, from Billy Graham to Norman Schwarkopf.  In Jerry’s chapter called “Learn to Speak with your body language” he gives three tips combined into an acronym: ERA ( E ye Connect, As a presenter, I feed off the energy of the audience. I