Brilliant Body Language
Impress, Persuade and Succeed with the Power of Body Language
Take your communication skills to a whole new level and understand what
people really think and feel.
What is said is often not what is meant, yet most of us don’t know how to ‘read
between the lines’. Something like an astounding 70% of communication is non-verbal! If
you want to be persuasive, build rapport, create a positive impression – be an all-round
brilliant and effective communicator – Brilliant Body Language is essential reading.
Written by a psychologist with extensive experience helping people hone their
interpersonal skills, this book will show you how to read and understand the intricacies
of body language and teach you how to use your own body language to get the best out of
all your relationships – in life and at work.
You will gain:
- A thorough background in body language – how to read it, how to use it.
- The ability to know how to establish rapport instantly.
- The ability to influence and persuade others with ease.
- An understanding what people really think and feel.
Table of Contents
About the author
Acknowledgements
Academic references
Introduction
Chapter 1: Our other language - an introduction
Chapter 2: The basic caveats
Chapter 3: Personal distance or proxemics
Chapter 4: Perception and first impressions
Chapter 5: The body language of anxiety
Chapter 6: How to control anxiety
Chapter 7: Body language for rapport skills
Chapter 8: Body language for personal confidence
Chapter 9: Body language for assertiveness
Chapter 10: Body language and attraction
Chapter 11: Body language and personal influence
Chapter 12: The hidden language of speech
Chapter 13: 75 body-language signs and what they might mean
Chapter 14: Putting it into practice
Conclusion: Ethics, body language and manipulation
Appendix 1: Possible answers to questions raised in the book
Appendix 2: Possible answers to the picture challenges on pages 199-202
Index
256 pages, Paperback