Posts tagged as:

Incongruence

Mar 3 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 6 of 7 | Body Language For Event Prediction And Sensory Acuity

by admin on March 3, 2009

In following yesterdays post on manipulation of information delivery, let’s get right into the subsequent 2 categories of event prediction and sensory acuity… 1. Prediction of Events: When I say “prediction of events”, what I mean is the ability to assign a probability to whether someone is going to follow through on their assertions one way or another. Again, reading body language can only give you a view into one or both areas of congruence and general mental states. So although you won’t KNOW exactly what they are thinking, congruence or incongruence in their informational message and their nonverbally communicated [...]

{ 2 comments }

Mar 3 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 4 of 7 | How to Use Body Language in Effective Communication

by admin on March 3, 2009

OK, OK… So how do I use body language to be a more effective communicator? Body language can be used for a number of powerful applications in communication and this boil down to how you or the other party is representing congruence in their/your own communication. There are three broad areas of classification where body language can be used for more effective communication: [amprotect=2, 3] Manipulation of information delivery – We can either erase, buffer or amplify the impact of information delivery, depending on how congruent our body language is with the message being delivered at the time of delivery. [...]

{ 0 comments }

Mar 3 2009

David J. Parnell’s Professional Body Language Tutorial | Part 3 of 7 | Incongruence And Our Subconscious

by admin on March 3, 2009

Incongruence literally means “not harmonious” per Webster’s dictionary (from incongruous). For our purposes this refers to the system of communication and the term system comprises many things… Language, content, abstraction level, tonality, etc… and last but certainly NOT least is body language. Let’s talk a bit further about how and where incongruity happens and how we vet this out… Incongruence/congruence in body language communication happens in five major categories: [amprotect=2, 3] Contextual – The surroundings including both physical and social/cultural. Historical – In reference to the person’s typical method of operation. Content – The actual subject matter and verbiage they [...]

{ 0 comments }