Corporate citizenship often requires you to influence colleagues and community partners. You have honed your program messages, but have you thought about the other messages you may be conveying?
Audiences extract meaning from both non-verbal and verbal symbols: Stance, eye contact, gestures, vocal quality and inflection, pitch, pace, use of pauses, linguistic choices, and so forth. Presenters typically give less thought to non-verbal communication than to message content, even though non-verbal symbols often carry as much—or more—meaning.
This interactive workshop focuses on how we express our ideas, with particular attention to non-verbal messaging. Through exercises and discussion, participants will:
be able to identify visual and vocal symbols that communicate confidence and authority;
understand the capacity of non-verbal messages to enhance and strengthen the verbal message or, alternatively, to contradict and obscure the message; and
identify linguistic strategies that advance the speaker's goals.
Speakers:
Moderator: Nancy Dunbar, Teaching Fellow, Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship