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8 Elements of The Confident Body Language

The document discusses eight elements of confident body language for public speaking: power pose, eye contact, facial expressions, hand gestures, open posture, relaxed movements, vocal variety, and confidence from within. It explains why each element is important and how to use them to one's advantage when speaking publicly.

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8 Elements of The Confident Body Language

The document discusses eight elements of confident body language for public speaking: power pose, eye contact, facial expressions, hand gestures, open posture, relaxed movements, vocal variety, and confidence from within. It explains why each element is important and how to use them to one's advantage when speaking publicly.

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8 Elements of the confident body language

When you speak, you don’t speak with what you actually say, you also speak
with your body language. From your facial expressions to your posture and eye
contact, they all add up to the truth behind what are you saying. If you feeling
nervous your body could be giving a different message to your audience than the
one you’re saying.
Body language is an essential part of public speaking success. Your non-verbal
cues will impact on the way your message is received, how engage your
audience is, and what they think of you as an individual. Even if you’ve
prepared the best speech in the world, if you aren’t animated, open or active then
your audience won’t know what you’ve said.
Strong Body language while speaking working on your body language can make
a big difference to how you come across to your audience, and how you feel
about public speaking in general.
In this blog they put together 8 of the most important element of your body
language that will shape how successful your speech is, explaining why they’re
important and how you can use them to your advantage.
 POWER POSE
Why? In 2011, US social psychologists AMY CUDDY, DANA CARNEY and
ANDY YAP proposed that holding a “power pose” resulted in people actually
feeling more powerful.
Their theory suggests that an open pose can raise testosterone levels and lowers
your cortisol levels –ie. Increase your dominance and lower your stress. If you
have a confident body language and pretend you feel powerful, you’re more
likely to actually feel it! And, who doesn’t want to feel powerful on stage?
HOW:
Stand straight with your shoulders back and feet shoulders width apart. Imagine
your shoulders opening up from one another so that they rest centrally.
Place your hands either the side of your body so that you can easily make hand
gestures when you need to.
Face the audience as much as possible. If you’re in the large room, tilt your
whole body to towards different parts of the audience so everyone feels
included.

 EYE CONTACT
Making eye contact with your audience build a connection between you and
them and they feel more valued by you. This makes the audience more likely to
respect and listen to you because they feel important. It also makes the audience
trust you more because people tend to avoid eye contact when they’re lying.
Confident body language can also be used as a feedback loop. Making eye
contact is the easiest way to receive feedback from de audience about your
speech.
You can see if the audience are listening and read their facial expressions to see
if they are interested, bored, angry, and happy so on. You can alter your speech
with accordingly based on the feedback you see. Without making an eye contact,
you could through your whole speech irritating the audience!
HOW:
When talking to a larger number of people, maintain eye contact with on
audience members for 4 or more seconds before moving to another members of
the audience for 4 seconds, and so on.
Make eye contact in a “Z” formation: look at the person at the back left corner
of the room, then the back right

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