First Impressions In only seven seconds, your brain makes eleven critical decisions about a person via subconscious evaluation of nonverbal cues. Once you lable someone “friendly” or “mean,” “weak” or “dominant” you will be hard-pressed to stop using that filter. 

Body Talk In a half-hour conversation, a pair of  people can almost a thousand nonverbal cues. Leaving out the nonverbal piece of the conversation can leave you wondering  how your brilliantly constructed plan wasn’t received the way you’d hoped.

Straight Talk Body language and words must align or your listener will have a hard time understanding you.

Game Set Match Status/authority and warmth/empathy are two sets of nonverbal signals that people look for in leaders. The most effective leaders employ the right signals at the right time and understand body language signals.

Guessing Game The real key is to understand on some level how your body language is most likely to be interpreted by others and how those interpretations will most likely affect your interactions with those people.