Nonverbal Communication  Look at your audience to convey your sincerity

 Over half of communication by a speaker of the message

occurs nonverbally  You will increase their attention to you by
 Your body is an effective instrument for sufficient eye contact
conveying information  Provides you feedback and helps you relax
 Sensible combinations of verbal and nonverbal Gestures and Body Movement
communication enables your listeners to better Objective: To acquaint the audience with the basics
understand your message of gestures and body movement
Nonverbal Characteristics
 Posture
 Gestures The story begins with communication….
 Body Movement • Verbal communnication
 Facial Expressions
 Eye Contact • Non- Verbal communication
Empathy Posture
 Look at your audience Gestures
 Support your words with appropriate nonverbal Body movement
signals: Facial expressions
 Smile when you wish to convey pleasant ideas Eye contact
 Frown when you express dissatisfaction Gesture
Why Gestures? It is a:
 Clarify usage of words • Significant body or limb movement
 Dramatize ideas • Any movement of the body or part of the body
 Reduce tension that expresses or emphasizes an idea, sentiment or
 Stimulates audience participation attitude
 Visible Types of Gesture
Types Of Gestures
 Descriptive • Conventionalized body movements/limited
 Clarify or enhance a verbal message action (eg. Praying)
 Emphatic
 Underscores a verbal message • Those without intention (eg. Blushing)
 Suggestive Importance of gestures
 Symbols of ideas and emotions • Clarify usage of words
 Prompting
 Evoke a desired response
• Dramatize ideas
Body Movement • Reduce tension
 Balance movements with verbal cues • Stimulates audience participation
 Avoid random movements
 Step forward to indicate you are arriving at a
• Visible
point Types of Gesture
 Step back when concluding a point and signals • Descriptive: clarify a message (eg. A big tree)
the audience they can relax momentarily • Emphatic: underscores a message (eg. smile)
 Always lead with your foot nearest your
destination • Suggestive: symbols of ideas and emotions
Facial Expressions (eg.looking at a wrist watch)
 Your face is watched whenever you speak • Prompting: evoke a desired response (eg.
 Often the key determinant of the meaning Salesmen)
behind a message Facial Expressions
 Communicates your attitudes, feelings, and • A type of gesture
emotions more so than any other part of your body
Eye Contact
• Change opinions
 Most powerful feature after voice • Shows feelings and attitudes
 Establish a bond • Deadpan face shows a lack of expressions
Body Movement
• Balance movements with verbal cues
• Avoid random movements
• Step forward to indicate you are arriving at a
point
• Step back when concluding a point and that the
audience can relax momentarily
Complexity of gestures
• Thumbs up is vulgar in Iran and Australia
• Greeks smile when angry
• It is unladylike for women to cross their legs in
Spain
• Patting a child’s head is sacrilegious in India
The World is full of Gestures…
• Traffic police
• Street vendors
• Expressway drivers
• Military persons
• Teacher and children
• Athletes
• Airport ground attendents

Advice
Follow 2 As in the world of Gestures!

• ASK
• be AWARE

Ground Rules to follow

• Respect
• Tolerate ambiguity
• Relate to people
• Be non-judgemental
• Personalize your observations
• Be empathetic
• Be persistent