The RIGHT way to SIT, stand, GESTURE & move your BODY

Here’s my 2018 on How to sit, stand, gesture and move your body.

In this hybrid meeting world we’re in, and will continue to be in for some time, ideas and techniques in the post can give you a competitive advantage when you communicate your ideas and vision – particularly when you speak in video meetings.

To complement the post here is my popular Video Communication Resources page which includes my 10 module, two minute video series The Art of Communication through video conferencing.

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FOUR minutes = a FULL Day

“Or, as Google’s David Peterson suggests, find just a few moments during your daily commute to think about questions – perhaps more immediate ones, involving the challenges of the day.

A few minutes may not seem like much, but it adds up. My fellow questionologist Hal Gregersen of the MIT Leadership Center has pointed out that if each of us devotes just four minutes a day to thinking of questions to ask ourselves, it add up to twenty-four hours – or a full day’s worth of questioning – over the course of a year.”

This is quote from the superb book, The Book of Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger.

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BIDEN – impassioned, GENUINE & statesmanlike in victory SPEECH

Joe Biden delivered an impassioned, genuine and statesmanlike performance in his election victory speech in winning the presidency of the United States.

Biden’s performance brings to mind the quote I mention often, from of the poet Horace:

‘If you want me to weep you already must be deeply grieved.’

Biden cares deeply about the thoughts he utters, so his audience (primarily the American people) cares deeply, too.

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