Your body changes your mind too!

1. Your Body
Language
Shapes Who
You Are

2. What is your body language communicating to
me and what is mine communicating to you?
Why body language is important?

3. Nonverbal expressions of
power and dominance:
Stretch out and take up space, opening up

4. Nonverbal expressions of
powerlessness:
Wrap ourselves up, make ourselves small

5. This is what happens when you
put together high and low power
High Power:
expands more and more
Low Power:
becomes smaller and smaller

6. Our nonverbals govern how
people think and feel about us
But..

7. Do our nonverbals govern
how we think and feel
about ourselves

8. Testosterone
Cortisol
Testosterone
Cortisol
High Power People have
Low Power People have

9. Let’s do an experiment.

10. Perform high power poses for 2 minutes..

11. Now perform low power poses for 2 minutes..

12. RESULTS
Testosterone Change Cortisol Change
High power High powerLow power Low power
Testosterone = Confidence Cortisol = Stress

13. Can power posing for a few
minutes really change our
life in significant way?

14. What do you do before going to an interview
Stick to
your phone
Worrying
constantly
Reading
magazine

15. take some time alone
and
perform high power poses
But actually you should do this

16. No
Not this

17. We want to hire these
High Power People
We don’t want to
hire these
Low Power People
RESULT

18. Don’t fake it till you make it,
fake it ‘til you become it.

19. tiny tweaks can lead to big changes

20. Don’t feel like I did not show them who I am,
Be like oh I really got to show them who I am.

21. Credits
Photos:
www.google.com
Content:
www.ted.com
Presentation created by -
Rashmi Choudhary, IIT Bombay
During an internship by
Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow
http://www.iiminternship.com