Body language and non-verbal communication video

If you enjoyed the cartoons posted recently (HERE and HERE), you might also be interested in this training video on body language and non-verbal behavior.

The challenge is to decide whether you think it's intended to be humorous or serious:

The 250 posts landmark

I’ve just noticed that that yesterday’s post was the 250th since I first dipped my toes in the blogoshere nine months ago.

If the number of visitors hadn’t been steadily increasing and if there hadn’t been so many positive and encouraging comments and emails, I don’t expect I’d have carried on for this long – so many thanks to everyone for taking an interest and for giving me an incentive to carry on (at least for a bit longer).

Any suggestions about how to improve the blog, and/or which kinds of post you like best would be very welcome.

So too would any ideas about how to attract even more visitors.

Another body language & non-verbal communication cartoon

Quite a lot of people seem to have enjoyed the cartoon I posted recently summing up the absurdity of the claim that only 7% of communication comes from the words we actually use and that 93% is 'non-verbal' (HERE).

What I like about this one is that the humour is massively reduced as soon the words 'actually used' are removed from above the door:



(If you're interested in modern myths about body language and non-verbal communication, you might also like to look HERE at my comments on the claim that people with their arms folded are on the defensive).