{"id":791,"date":"2010-11-13T11:39:56","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elementally.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/?p=791"},"modified":"2010-11-13T11:39:56","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T10:39:56","slug":"body-language-for-presentations-not-oversimplified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/body-language-for-presentations-not-oversimplified\/","title":{"rendered":"Body language for presentations – not oversimplified!"},"content":{"rendered":"

At last! \u00c2\u00a0Some useful presentation skills stuff t odo with body language which isn’t the (painfully) oversimplified stuff like “If your audience does X, they’re thinking Y” or “”If you want your audience to think Y you should avoid gesture X”!<\/p>\n

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Personally, I’m not sure that things are so simple as to suggest that there are four discrete<\/strong> ‘modes’ of presenting – I suggest they overlap a lot – but it’s a very useful tool for looking at making improvements to your presentations once you’re already fairly good<\/strong>. \u00c2\u00a0I emphasised that last bit because in my experience, non-experienced presenters who try and use this kind of technique tend to get their knickers in a twist (as we say in the UK): trying too hard to get this kind of thing right if you’re not up to it can simply make your presentation look false, stilted and un-natural.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At last! \u00c2\u00a0Some useful presentation skills stuff t odo with body language which isn’t the (painfully) oversimplified stuff like “If your audience does X, they’re thinking Y” or “”If you want your audience to think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-presentation-tips","category-reviews-case-studies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awareplus.co.uk\/presentation-skills-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}