Body Language - for Election Coverage see below

Training people in non-verbal communication.

I teach the elements of non-verbal communication that are of practical importance, using neuroscience (particularly physiology and anatomy) to illustrate how things work. In addition to making the learning thorough and structured, I find that the science creates very visible mnemonics that help people to remember the material. With everything I teach, I apply the "Monday morning test": what do people remember the next Monday, and how easily are they able to apply the material in their own careers.

I also do not oversimplify non-verbal communication. A lot of books (and nowadays newspapers, TV shows, etc.) take a comic book approach to non-verbal communication: for example, a photo is shown of a man with folded arms, and then the caption reads "this means he is defensive" or if the man is last through the door while guiding the other man's back forward through the door first, "this means he is the dominant one". I think differently about the subject - rather than hiding from the obvious ambiguity implicit in body language, I show you its advantages. My approach to non-verbal communication is that it is dynamic and occurs over time - so I use films to unequivocally show that. I also take the point of view that all communication is interactive, even when it is unconscious and deliberately disguised. To take non-verbal communication to the next level, you have to do something, not simply sit back, watch, and take notes. It is tautological that we are always influencing others with our body language; my material gives you resources to make some of this influence deliberate.

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Election Coverage 2010:

LBC Radio - Nick Ferrari's Election Coverage. 8:10 AM Friday 16 April
Listen... 1 MB mpg File (2 minutes 25 seconds).

BBC Radio Sussex & BBC Radio Surrey 10:10 AM Friday 16 April. I spoke just before Gordon Brown came into the BBC Brighton studio.
Listen... 1.3 MB mpg File (2 minutes 50 seconds - a selection from a much longer interview with 3 guests).

BBC Radio Somerset - Emma Britton. 9:20 AM Friday 16 April
Listen... 2 MB mpg File (4 minutes 30 seconds).

More Body Language

Gordon Brown vs. David Cameron: Prime Minister's Questions

BBC Radio 4 - PM with Eddie Mair. 6 July 2007
Listen...

David Cameron's first appearance on Prime Minister's Questions

BBC Radio 4 - "PM with Eddie Mair" 7th December 2005.
3 minute interview, commenting on how nervous David Cameron was when he first faced Tony Blair on their first meeting during Prime Minister's Questions.
Listen... 2.94MB mp3 File (3 minutes 12 seconds).

"Total Politics" Magazine Column

In June 2009 my column was about determining who is the boss?

In July 2009 my column was about avoiding death by powerpoint.

BBC World Service - "Communications Revolution".

September 2006.
Interviewed by Mike Williams on how the communications revolution will cope with body language.
Contact: Dave Edmonds, Producer.
Listen... 1.01MB mp3 File (2 minutes 13 seconds).

Articles:

Evening Advertiser - 'What is your body saying?'.
4 March 2004.
This was a full page of coverage (with 8 photographs) of my Swindon Café Scientifique lecture on Body Language (2 Mar 04).
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