Did you know that nearly 90% of our communication includes nonverbal elements? If so, I am sure you wonder why was invented the spoken language as long as all non-verbally communicates the most, whether it's about business life or is about everyday life! How nonverbal communication helps us? When you know someone, the first contact is essential, and this first contact does not occur through long speeches. It occurs through nonverbal elements (so-called "body language"). So, in this article about business nonverbal communication, I'll try to show you what are the basic principles of body language that will allow you to make to your interlocutor a good impression, showing up as an open person, smiling and attentive.

Talking about business nonverbal communication, let me tell you that body language helps us in making a good first impression during a job interview, to support a successful presentation through absorbing the audience’s attention by using nonverbal messages or help us conclude a profitable transaction because we managed to persuade those in front of us that they deserve to be our business partners. How? Maybe because you’ve just emanated through nonverbal the self confidence that your potential business partners were looking in you. But the motives and physical signals that we can deliver can be multiple. You know for sure that body language is the reason for whicha face to face selling is more advantageous than the one on the phone when we use only 40% of our full potential for communication, namely, words and nonverbal elements of paralanguage (intonation, speech rhythm, tone, so on.) What happens? Whenever we communicate with others we react to what it’s said, heard or seen. But in fact, besides these, there is something very important, which we gave it no attention: our body language can communicate as 1000 words in one place!

I’d like to start my article about business nonverbal communication in writing in the following lines the role of body language.

What is the role of body language in business? It’s knowledge required? Do we need to pay attention?

The answer to these questions is a big 'yes', because in a business meeting or a negotiation, the signing of a contract or a media appearance, your nonverbal behavior communicates to others what kind of man you are, how educated you are, what are your emotions, which are your interests, how much you appreciate yourself and the list could go on forever. To have a successful business and to create successful relationships, body language is essential, because many times we do not express in words exactly what we feel. But our body forward so clearly what we feel and reveal the secrets of our thoughts or feelings that can be read, decoded by those around us and can be used against us.