What Is Nonverbal Communication
Nonverbal communication it’s an essential component of daily life. It can be an interview we have to go, or a speech we must sustain, a discussion we have or a conversation that apply for lot of auto control, the nonverbal communication it’s the factor our success it’s sometimes hanging on. The explanation it’s simple because an interlocutor catches in his mind just a part from the amount of messages delivered by the emitter: 7% are verbal, 38% are nonverbal and 55% are nonverbal. On the other side, the axiom of nonverbal communication relieves this type of communication has biggest relevance than paraverbal and verbal signals and here I am talking about voice variety, accent and tone. This axiom expresses the following thing: “When that you say it’s not in concordance with what you do, the interlocutor will believe what he see meaning your body nonverbal signals.”
The nonverbal communication and here I’d like to approach other very important problem-body language has three components: pantomime, eye contact and gesticulation.
-Pantomime means all the appearances we can observe on a person’s face: his head’s movements, eye contact, the orientation of his look and his smile. In what regards his look, for creating a communication relationship we must keep the eye contact like 60%-70% from time.
Also, there are many types of looks: official, intimate, on a side including also a smile (meaning interest), including a frown (meaning hostility). When we stop keeping the eye contact and we close our eyes we indicate that we’d like to finish the interaction.
-Gesticulation means hand language or hand skills regarding the speed of moving them, the tension level, their pose, our manner of exposing our fingers, the distance between hands and body. Knowing decoding their meaning the success can be on our side.
Also, the pose of our hands can indicate uncounted hints upon somebody’s mood.
- Open, relaxed hands indicate a positive attitude, an invitation to sincerity ;
- Crossed arms indicate repudiation ;
- Arms held back indicate concern ;
- When the listener touches his chain means that he appraise in positive manner those said by the emitter;
- Massing the back head indicates a stew feeling ;
- Sustaining the chain indicates boredom;
- Playing with the pen indicates impatience;
- Fractioning the palms indicates anticipation.
The posture and the orientation of our body are also very important because they indicate the people’s mood.
- Leg upon the leg indicates disbelief;
- Crossed arms indicates that the interlocutor is totally uninterested about what you say;
- Legs over chair indicates a portly bossy attitude;
- But, when the legs are crossed but the body’s pose it’s inclined to the interlocutor, this indicates understanding and cooperation;
- A easy body’s inclination indicates interest ;
- Body lean backwards indicates absence of interest.
Knowing this information about nonverbal communication and body language can help us in touching more easily our discussion goals, our prelection targets and that one who fathoms the mysteries of nonverbal communication for sure will have much success in all he had proposed.
Published by communicationtype, on Apr 26 2010, in the categories: types of communication
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