Body Language Part 1

1-Day Course Includes Comprehensive Guides to Read and Understand Body Language and Non-Verbal Signals

Contains High Resolution Body Language Illustrations Ready to Integrate into Any Course Material

Training Course Description

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart."
St. Jerome quotes

Many studies show that we communicate mainly through body language, especially when we are in an emotional state. Since many of our achievements in life depend on how well we interact with others, it is quite critical to know how to communicate beyond words.

Knowledge of body language can greatly help individuals in many areas such as communication skills, leadership skills, customer services, sales skills and so on. As a result, the course is structured in such a way to make at as easy as possible for a trainer to select content based on their needs and include it in their training courses, or alternatively deliver it as one single course.

The following describes the unique characteristics of this course:

Full Day Course
You can use the training materials provided to deliver a full day course on body language. The course contains many exercises and comes with trainer notes with instructions on how to run the course.

Visual Content
Body language is highly visual and the best way to learn is by imitation, observing case studies and role plays. As a result, this course is specifically designed to accommodate these special requirements in a novel way. The course contains a large number of gesture cards which are documented in the workbook and the slides.

Modular Design
Body Language is all about reading gestures and body states. To teach them, you simply need to show a gesture as an image or show it in person, discuss it with delegates, get them to practice it and move on to the next gesture. As a result, this course is designed to be modular, so you can easily walk through these gestures as necessary. This way, you can easily use portions of it in any course you deliver as necessary.

Integration with Other Courses
Since Body Language is applicable to just about everything, this modularity is indeed a necessity since you may want to address body language in a given course such as communication skills, anger management, etc., and may need to focus on specific related gestures which you can pull out from the set of gestures provided in this course.

High Resolution Graphics
Each gesture is illustrated with elaborate diagrams showing exactly how the body language signal works in practice. The graphics presented here are specifically developed for this course. Each course contains in excess of 60 illustrations alone. The images are provided in high resolution so you can print them with high quality if necessary.

Royalty Free
Images are provided royalty free. You can print them as many times as you like for your workbooks and distribute them to your delegates.

Extended Rights
You can use the images outside a training environment to illustrate body language.

Exercises
Exercises are provided to encourage learning and allow a trainer to test the delegates based on the content thought.

The Body Language training materials provided by Skills Converged comes in two parts, one covering common gestures (Part 1) and the other covers more advanced gestures and their interpretation (Part 2).

In this highly practical course delegates will learn:
• What is body language all about?
• Universal gestures
• How to read body language?
• How to avoid misinterpretation and deliberate faking?
• Positive versus negative body language
• Confidence and frustration
• Eye contacts and eye cues
• Lies, dishonesty, doubts and thinking

Many elaborate topics are covered. Examples are:
• What does it mean to show the thumbs?
• What is the difference between showing the back of your hand or your palm?
• How would you respond to a dominant handshaker who wants to show he is in charge?
• How would you know if someone is nervous even if they display gestures which are signs of confidence?
• Where to look at in someone else's face to appear trustworthy or to be taken seriously?
• How to spot liars based on their gestures?
• How to know what someone is going to decide on, before they state it?
• How to know if someone is not convinced, despite showing that they are still thinking about your argument?

This course is continued with Body Language Part 2 which contains more advanced gestures provided in the same format.

Audience

Anyone

Prerequisites

None

Course Duration

1 day. The course is highly modular and you can easily use portions of the course for your own specific needs or timing requirements.

Course Level

Beginners & Intermediate

Delegates will learn

By the end of this course the delegates will be able to:
• Use the principles of body language to read clusters
• Distinguish between open and closed body positions and interpret them correctly within the context
• Spot lack of confidence in others through their body language and use this knowledge to enhance your own posture
• Read others through their eyes and make an impact on others by adopting specific eye expressions
• Spot lies and read evaluations gestures before final decisions are verbalised

The Philosophy Behind Body Language Training Course

This course is designed from the outset to cover two needs. One is to provide a full day course on body language that covers various gestures and increases delegate's awareness about non-verbal signals. The other need is that many soft skills courses require the inclusion of a session or chapter on body language since you can't really talk about communication skills in general without covering this topic.

The course provided here satisfies both needs by offering a collection of gesture cards categorised into a number of sections. You can go through them as part of a one-day course or you can pick the gesture cards and use them in your other courses where you think it is more appropriate. For example, you can pick a number of gestures cards on greetings, impact and handshaking and include them in Client Management Skills or Interview Skills and so on.