Body Language for Public Speaking: A Complete Guide
Expert guide to body language for public speakers: posture, gestures, eye contact, movement, and voice with drills for stage, boardroom, and video.
The exact change
"Your body language shapes who you are. How you stand, how you hold yourself, changes what you feel. And what you feel changes what you do next." Amy Cuddy, Presence [...] "Good gesture is like good punctuation. It separates ideas, emphasizes the ones that matter, and stays out of the way the rest of the time." Patsy Rodenburg, voice coach [...] "The pause is the most underused tool in public speaking. It gives the audience time to catch up, and it gives the speaker time to catch up too." James Earl Jones
As Amy Cuddy argues in Presence, our bodies change our minds, our minds change our behavior, and our behavior changes our outcomes. [...] As voice coaches often teach, good gesture works like good punctuation: it separates ideas, emphasizes what matters, and otherwise stays out of the way. [...] Experienced speakers often note that the pause is one of the most underused tools in public speaking, giving both audience and speaker time to catch up.
Why this is better
Unverified verbatim quote attributed to Amy Cuddy's Presence; the exact wording could not be verified in the book, though it paraphrases themes from her TED Talk and research.; unverified verbatim quote attributed to voice coach Patsy Rodenburg; this exact wording could not be verified in any of her published works or interviews.; unverified quote attributed to James Earl Jones; this exact wording could not be verified in any interview, book, or published source associated with him.
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