Snap
Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language, and Charisma
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
From business meetings to social events to first dates to job interviews, we all encounter new people every day. Our ability to read body cues and convey the right first impression drives the success and quality of our personal and professional lives. Body language expert Patti Wood, a sought-after consultant and speaker to Fortune 500 companies, helps businesses and individuals stand out, create profitable relationships, and thrive in competitive circumstances. Now she brings that knowledge to our daily lives, offering practical and proven guidance on accurately interpreting body cues and creating impressions both in person and digitally. In Snap, you’ll learn how to:
* Use your voice and body language to convey confidence and charisma, authenticity and authority
* Immediately discern people’s hidden agendas
* Make the best impressions via email, phone, video conferencing, and social networks
* Convey and interpret signals of likability, power, credibility, and attractiveness
* Use nonverbal tools to spot true integrity or recognize charming frauds
* Attract the best matches in business and romantic partners
* Recognize how you really look to others
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Coach and corporate consultant Wood (Success Signals: A Guide to Reading Body Language) offers tips on how to effectively use nonverbal skills in such situations as job interviews, sales pitches, telephone calls, and first dates. Beginning with current brain science, she cites research indicating that judgments are made about attractiveness, likability, trustworthiness, competence, and aggressiveness after looking at people's faces for just a 10th of a second. Surprisingly, nonverbal snap cues have a 76% accuracy rate (though without citations, it's hard to credit her statement that "there is a genetic link between appearance and personality"), and it can take six months, Wood says, to change an inaccurate first impression. She provides in-depth coverage of such areas as arm crosses ("I have labeled over 50 different arm crosses"), empathy and emotions, eye contact, e-mail formalities, facial expressions, gestures, greetings, handshakes, "matching and mirroring" (mirroring another person's body language makes them feel comfortable with you), online impressions, and signals that make a woman approachable (men find women who stand with feet close together and toes turned slightly inward unthreatening). Writing with a wide range of lucid observations and insights, Wood offers a valuable addition to the many studies of human behavior.
Customer Reviews
SNAP
Patti Wood hits a home run when it comes to practical body language understanding. She knows her subjects and communicates clearly with lots of real life examples. Well done.