Certificate In Body Language Basics Online Course

Module One - Getting Started

The ability to interpret body language is a skill that will enhance anyone's career. Body language is a form of communication, and it needs to be practiced like any other form of communication.

Module Two -Communicating with Body Language

• Learning a new language
• The power of body language
• More than words
• Actions speak louder than words

Module Three - Reading Body Language

• Head position
• Translating gestures into words
• Open vs Closed body language
• The eyes have it

Module Four - Body Language Mistakes

• Poor posture
• Invading personal space
• Quick movements
• Fidgeting

Module Five - Gender Differences

• Facial Expressions
• Personal Distances
• Female Body Language
• Male Body Language

Module Six - Nonverbal Communication

• Common gestures
• The signals you send to others
• It's not what you say, it's how you say it
• What your posture says

Module Seven - Facial Expressions

• Linked with emotion
• Micro-expressions
• Facial action coding systems (FACS)
• Universal facial expressions

Module Eight - Body Language in Business

• Communicate with power
• Cultural differences
• Building trust
• Mirroring

Module Nine - Lying and Body Language

• Watch their hands
• Forced smiles
• Eye contact
• Changes in posture

Module Ten - Improve your Body Language

• Be aware of your movements
• The power of confidence
• Position and posture
• Practice in a mirror

Module Eleven - Matching your Words to your Movement

• Involuntary movements
• Say what you mean
• Always be consistent
• Actions will trump words

Module Twelve - Wrapping Up

Words from the Wise

• TERRY GALLOWAY - Deafness has left me acutely aware of both the duplicity that language is capable of and the many expressions the body cannot hide
• DALE CARNEGIE - There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
• RALPH WALDO EMERSON - When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.