5 New Ways To Feel More Powerful, Backed By Research
e military makes soldiers stand up straight for a reason; there's an implicit connection between posture and power that has been demonstrated time and time again. Want to increase confidence? Make yourself tougher? Stand up straight. Clench your fists. Gestures should be palm down. Know how to speak with power. Deepen your voice. Speak first. Speak often. Repeat yourself. Interrupt people. Don't laugh. Elevate yourself when standing. Sit in the center during meetings. Dress appropriately. It makes a difference. People…
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Would your team be more more creative if members were less experienced?
aming experienced people with the less experienced can result in better performance than either could do on their own. Those who are new to a subject stimulate creative thinking in those who are more accomplished. Via Choke: What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To: Experienced people benefit from hearing the thoughts of those who are less skilled in areas other than the business world. Pairing two university students of lower and higher…
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Here Are The 3 Steps For Getting People To Pay Attention To You
her excellent book 100 Things Every Presenter Needs to Know About People, Susan Weinschenk lays out a research backed 3 step process that really impressed me: 1) Start with what you know they believe. If you start your presentation with the opposite of what they believe, they may turn you off right away. For example, if you start a presentation to me by saying how amazing Android phones are or that Android phones are superior to iPhones, then you’ve…
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How To Speak With Power
a The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: Speak slowly. Visualize the contrast between a nervous, squeaky teenager speaking at high speed and the slow, emphatic tone of a judge delivering a verdict. Pause. People who broadcast confidence often pause while speaking. They will pause for a second or two between sentences or even in the middle of a sentence. This conveys the feeling that they’re so confident in their power, they trust…
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The Best Way To Dress When You Want To Influence Someone
search shows you should either: 1) Dress formally or, 2) Dress like they do: Via The Charisma Myth: How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism: In the 1970s, when young adults’ dress styles tended to fall into either the “hippie” or the “straight” category, researchers experimented with the effects of clothing choice. They approached college students on a campus, sometimes wearing hippie clothes and other times wearing straight clothes, and asked for change to make a…
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Here’s What Your Voice Tells Others About You
ople judge you by your voice in many ways. Via Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior: The result: speakers with higher-pitched voices were judged to be less truthful, less emphatic, less potent, and more nervous than speakers with lower-pitched voices. Also, slower-talking speakers were judged to be less truthful, less persuasive, and more passive than people who spoke more quickly. “Fast-talking” may be a cliché description of a sleazy salesman, but chances are, a little speedup will make…
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Are fist bumps, high fives, chest bumps, head grabs and half hugs the key to team performance?
he teams that touched the most cooperated the most, and won the most." Via Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior: So are touchy-feely people more successful at getting things done? There is no data on whether bosses who dole out the occasional pat on the head run a smoother operation, but a 2010 study by a group of researchers in Berkeley found a case in which a habit of congratulatory slaps to the skull really is associated with…
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Is dishonesty contagious?
o you hang out with does affect your ethical standards and, as is often the case, negative behavior influences us much more than positive behavior. Via The Boston Globe: If your mom warned you about running around with the wrong crowd, it turns out she may have been on to something: New research suggests that hanging out with immoral people can actually change your own standards for behavior. People who were made to relate to another person—whether by writing a…
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