Body Language and Interviews

Body Language and Interviews © Positive Potential Ltd

Further Study

There are many books on the subject of body language, but there is no substitute for simple 'people watching'. Notice what you feel about people when you are watching them and then bring to your conscious brain what exactly you are seeing that makes you feel that way. Body language is a complex mixture of signals - micro gestures - and cannot accurately be read from one movement alone. A person with their arms crossed in a meeting will probably be construed by many people as being closed minded, but this person might just be cold! If on the other hand the same individual is giving minimal eye contact and is sitting back rather than forward together with a level of tension visible in the body, they have indeed probably closed their mind to proceedings.

If you are seriously interested in studying body language and you have access to a Sky Plus box or hard drive recorder, try playing one scene over 3 or 4 times frame by frame to notice change in micro gestures.

I have been studying Body Language for some 15 years and some of the material I have found most useful and that I would recommend are:

NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

w w w . n l p u . c om (Robert Diltz NLP University)

www . itsnlp . com (for NLP training)

www.interviewsuccesszone.com (NLP and interviews)

www .michaelarinder. co m Author and trainer of Group Mastery Course and 'Cats and Dogs'

The Definitive Book of Body Language - Allan and Barbara Pease

The One Minute Sales Person - Spencer Johnson

The Book of Tells - Peter Collett

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Body Language and Interviews © Positive Potential Ltd

Action

Decide right NOW to take ACTION to master your body language

Select only	one of the following to	really concentrate on in the next weeks.
Do not try	and do it all at once.	When you have mastered the first point,

and it becomes natural (you become first consciously competent then

unconsciously competent), commit to trying the			next. Your journey will be
completed if you choose to take one	step at a	time. Put a		1, 2, and 3 next
to the points you feel will be most	beneficial	to	master,	but remember ....
only one at a time!

A C T I ON	W h e r e , w h e n , with w h o m ?

Good posture

(Alexander Technique, Pilates or Martial Arts)

Open gestures

Good eye contact

The handshake

Good Listening Skills

Noting other people's comfort zones

Mirroring

Smiling

Chin Up

Torso facing others

Yellow Post-It Technique

Good luck ... and have fun!

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