How to Be Fluent in Body Language
Do you ever feel like you're completely misreading people's signals? Just like any other language, body language can be learned. In less than a week, you'll be able to know if someone is uncomfortable, flirting, or upset just by reading their non-verbal cues.
Featuring Maureen Taylor, Communications Coach
Format
Daily lessons delivered straight to your inbox, completely mobile-friendly
Duration
5 days
Time
5 minutes per lesson
What you will learn
- What percentage of our communication is actually verbal (can you guess?)
- How to spot the seven universal facial gestures people use when they express an emotion
- The four levels of social distance and what they tell you about how someone feels about you
- An exercise to practice and improve your ability to make eye contact
- What you need to know about body language on dates, during job interviews, and while negotiating
Why should you take this course?
- You want to understand the difference between what people say and what they mean.Communication exists far beyond words, and can sometimes be just the tip of the iceberg. You want to understand other people's intentions, and knowing how to interpret body language correctly will get you there.
- You'd like more control over how you communicate. Learning how body language works will inform you on what your own body language expresses to others. These skills will help you align your mind with your body, making you a more strategic communicator.
- You want razor-sharp social skills, whether personal or professional. You want to perform well at work, and you also want a thriving personal life. Understanding and appropriately reacting to non-verbal cues is an essential skill that will serve you well, whether during presentations, first dates, or tough conversations.
Course Overview
5 Lessons
Understand Body Language
Get a crash course on how body language works and why it's important. Examine different situations and how to align your words with your actions.
Interpret Facial Expressions and Other Cues
From eyes to mouth, get pro tips from Maureen Taylor on how to sense what people are feeling at any given moment.
Decipher Posture and Body Movements
Correctly gauging people's comfort level with personal space or appropriate touching is a vital skill, especially in professional environments.
Improve Your Awareness
Improve your non-verbal forms of communication by managing stress and developing your emotional awareness, plus other tricks.
Apply Your Knowledge
You made it! Celebrate your newfound knowledge by applying Maureen's lessons to different situations.
Meet the Expert
Maureen Taylor
Communications Coach
Maureen Taylor is the CEO and Founder of SNP Communications, a leadership communications company based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She has been helping leaders, founders, and innovators in all sectors hone their messaging and delivery for almost 30 years, and has worked with leaders and teams at Google, Facebook, Airbnb, SAP, Salesforce, and Spotify.
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Frequently Asked Questions
These tools all sound great, but understanding non-verbal behavior sounds hard. Will it really be possible for me to actually learn this stuff in 5 days?
Absolutely! This course has been specifically designed to teach anyone key indicators to look for in another person's behavior, and doesn't get too complicated. Anyone who takes this course should walk away with heightened awareness of others' behavior.
How will I receive this course?
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What are others saying?
Holli
This course helped me so much– now I am more careful about watching people's actions are before talking or reacting. It's already come in handy so much, especially in more sensitive situations where I want to take care of people's feelings. Thanks!
Boris
This course, as with anything I find on wikiHow, was interesting, very helpful and useful! The lessons were understandable and straight to the point. This is why wikiHow is my favorite–whatever you're curious about, you can learn, no problem!
Shay
This course has helped me understand better how to conduct myself and express myself more openly. Beyond that, I feel like I am way more equipped to react, recognize how people are feeling more, and be aware of my own actions.
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