Whats Body Language Got To Do With It?
Humans are capable of communicating over four channels – voice quality, voice content, micro signals and body language. Each of the four broadcasts cognitive and emotional information in varying strengths and forms. Because communication skills, talents and habits for each person vary, the overall contributing percentages of each can be different. Of the four channels, body language provides the most output making up anywhere from 50 to 85 percent depending on the person or even which expert you may ask. The question is what’s all the body language about and what does it mean to the interviewer? First of all body language can obviously contribute to a verbal message that is being broadcast. Often we judge a person’s level of communication skills based not only on their verbal talents but also on the artistic flair of the person’s body language. This subclass of nonverbal behavior includes what are called illustrators. These are motions, gestures, movements and in some cases facial expr
