Your body language shapes who you are

Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are

What is your body language communicating to me and what is mine communicating to you?

Why body language is important?

Nonverbal expressions of power and dominance:

Stretch out and take up space, opening up

Nonverbal expressions of powerlessness:

Wrap ourselves up, make ourselves small

This is what happens when you put together high and low power

High Power: expands more and more

Low Power: becomes smaller and smaller

Our nonverbals govern how people think and feel about us

But..

Do our nonverbals govern how we think and feel about ourselves

Testosterone

Cortisol

Testosterone

Cortisol

High Power People have

Low Power People have

Let’s do an experiment.

Perform high power poses for 2 minutes..

Now perform low power poses for 2 minutes..

RESULTS

Testosterone Change Cortisol Change

High power High powerLow power Low power

Testosterone = Confidence Cortisol = Stress

Can power posing for a few minutes really change our life in significant way?

What do you do before going to an interview

Stick to your phoneWorrying

constantly

Reading magazine

take some time alone andperform high power poses

But actually you should do this

NoNot this

We want to hire these High Power People

We don’t want to hire these Low Power People

RESULT

Don’t fake it till you make it,fake it ‘til you become it.

tiny tweaks can lead to big changes

Don’t feel like I did not show them who I am, Be like oh I really got to show them who I am.

Credits

Photos:www.google.com

Content:www.ted.com

Presentation created by - Rashmi Choudhary, IIT Bombay

During an internship by Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow http://www.iiminternship.com