Body language basics – Body Language Course

It would be fair to say that the above is the intention of this workshop. We have taught our participants to become aware of themselves, to identify their worth and value. We have taught them communication skills and how to communicate effectively with co-workers. We have taught students the value of assertiveness and self confidence and we have taught managerial staff all of the above people skills as well.In more than one workshop (Body Language Course) we have devoted a module to body language, especially in the interview/interviewee situation. Now it’s time to spend an entire workshop on recognising what your body says, and what your boss’s and fellow employees’ bodies are saying back to you.

As with basic accounting skills, much of what is presented in the workshop – you already know. You do it every day subconsciously, in this workshop boti.co.za will teach participants to bring that knowledge into their conscious minds. You won’t have to wonder what mood someone is in, their body language will tell you and you can then adjust the manner in which you approach that person to communicate more effectively with them.

TIP:  Body language includes posture, gestures and facial expressions. A person’s appearance, their physical proximity and tone of voice are also all body language signals.

We begin our workshop with the importance of understanding what is not said, and why reading someone’s body language is an essential skill in business. Head gestures are the first clue to body language so we begin with the head and then move on to the hands and the gestures of the fingers, everyone knows what a thumbs – up is, but most people register the gesture without realizing that it is in fact body language. We discuss the arms and the positions we hold them in to indicate open or closed body language.

Next we discuss the legs and finally the eyes. They can be a mirror or a window, this workshop hopes to teach participants to see the eyes as windows, giving communication a big boost through understanding what the eyes say.

In module four of the Body Language Course  we discuss body language mistakes and what gives possible rise to these mistakes without the sender being aware of it. Next we touch on gender differences and the differences in personal space by each gender. The ladies participating will learn male body language and the gentlemen present will learn female body language.

We also look at how you say something, the tone and pitch of your voice and what your posture tells other people.

Participants will also learn what micro expressions are, what they convey, how they can be spotted and how micro facial expressions expose lying, President Bill Clinton is an excellent example here to learn from micro expressions.