What Your Body Says (And How to Master the Message): Inspire, Influence, Build Trust, and Create Lasting Business Relationships

by Sharon Sayler

Train your body to communicate with confidence and clarity-have your body match what your mouth says... The popular phrase "leading from influence" takes for granted that influence derives chiefly from verbal communication. However, communication is about more than words. To get to the next level in your career, you must communicate with your entire self. What Your Body Says gives you the straight-up "how-to" on unifying what you say with what you do, allowing you to better connect with other people and reach your full leadership potential. It gives you a clear and simple process to follow, all drawn from an intense study of how language impacts people's lives and emotions. Filled with useful tools, strategies, and techniques, this book gives you the key to Written by Sharon Sayler, a highly accomplished expert in marketing, presentations, and body language, What Your Body Says is the only guide you need to achieve the competitive edge in your personal and business communication style.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Business

172 pages, Hardcover

First published August 2, 2010

Reviews

[Anas Radwan · Rating 4 out of 5]

كتاب مفعم مليء بالمعلومات.. يحفزك على التدريب والتطور بحيث تقيس كل خطواتك وتستدرجها كي تكون بصالحك في الاقناع مثلا او تدعيم مواقفك
علم بحد ذاته يكتسب ولكن لابد من التدرب والتمرن للخوض فيه

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[Jane · Rating 3 out of 5]

A few good tips on gesturing—and probably a good read for newbie presenters.

[Gabrielle · Rating 3 out of 5]

As someone who gives a lot of presentations and teaches classes and workshops for my life coaching business, I thought this book would be extremely helpful. It is not your typical body language book (as Sayler states in the introduction) but a book about how to use gestures purposefully when giving public presentations.

There's some helpful stuff in here that I've never heard of before. Sayler covers how to use gestures to convey bad news/results so that the audience doesn't associate the bad news with you, how to project confidence in more ways than just having good posture(who knew smiling a lot could be so detrimental to one's credibility?) and how to use voice intonation differently for different purposes. All helpful stuff.

But for those of us who get up in front of audiences for a big chunk of our workdays, this book just didn't have ENOUGH in it. I would have liked a) a lot more information and b) more visuals. A 500 page book complete with gestures for many different situations complete with a bunch of pictures and do's and don'ts would have been perfect. I basically spent a couple of hours reading a book with information someone could have explained to me in 10 minutes or less.

Sayler kept saying throughout the book-I know this is a lot of information to take in-(which I obviously completely disagree with) so maybe it was written for people who are just starting out in their public speaking careers. For those looking for something more in-depth and relevant, this isn't the book for you.

[Nurshafiqa · Rating 2 out of 5]

this book is very easy to understand, sad thing is its mostly targeted at people who are working and not really relevant for me, a 16-year-old.

there are a few tips on how to be seem more confident and some on eye contact, which im aware of. but its all a very good reminder.

i finished the whole book in less than an hour. for me, since it wasnt very relevant, it wasnt very interesting.

[Trm-1394 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Hgnb

[Kavin Xavier · Rating 4 out of 5]

A wonderful book on body language.The techniques discussed in the books are really fascinating and has practical value.

[Chris Hager · Rating 3 out of 5]

A very solid book but not as strong as what every body is saying by Joel Navarro