The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help--or Hurt--How You Lead

Front Cover
John Wiley & Sons, Mar 16, 2011 - Business & Economics - 288 pages
A guide for using body language to lead more effectively

Aspiring and seasoned leaders have been trained to manage their leadership communication in many important ways. And yet, all their efforts to communicate effectively can be derailed by even the smallest nonverbal gestures such as the way they sit in a business meeting, or stand at the podium at a speaking engagement. In The Silent Language of Leaders, Goman explains that personal space, physical gestures, posture, facial expressions, and eye contact communicate louder than words and, thus, can be used strategically to help leaders manage, motivate, lead global teams, and communicate clearly in the digital age.

  • Draws on compelling psychological and neuroscience research to show leaders how to adjust their body language for maximum effect.
  • Stands out as the only book to address specifically how leaders can use body language to increase their effectiveness
  • Goman, a respected management coach, is widely considered as the expert in body language issues in the workplace

The Silent Language of Leaders will show readers how to take advantage of the most underused skills in the leadership toolkit—nonverbal skills—to improve their credibility and stay ahead of the curve.

 

Selected pages

Contents

THE LEADERSHIPBODY
1
LEADERSHIP AT A GLANCE
13
NEGOTIATION
35
LEADING CHANGE
67
COLLABORATION
93
HE LEADS SHE LEADS
151
WORKING WITH GLOBAL TEAMS
177
INTERNATIONAL BODY LANGUAGE
195
THE NONVERBAL FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP
237
Copyright

Other editions - View all

The Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help--or Hurt--How You ...
Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D.
Limited preview - 2011

Common terms and phrases

ability activity arms asked audience authority become begin behavior believe body language brain build cards chapter close collaboration colleagues comes conference confidence connection conversation corporate create cues cultures dealing display effective emotional employees example executive expect expressions eye contact face face-to-face fact feel feet female formal future gestures give global going hands handshake head important increase interact International keep Language of Leaders leadership Leads learned legs less look male manager meaning meeting negative negotiation nonverbal communication organization participants person positive presentation relationships response role seated seen senior side signals Silent Language situation skills smile social someone space speaking stand stress success talk tend touch trust understand University virtual voice watch women

About the author (2011)

Carol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D., founder of Kinsey Consulting Services, is an executive coach, management consultant, and keynote speaker for corporations, associations, and government agencies. She is a faculty member for the Institute of Management Studies and has served as adjunct faculty at John F. Kennedy University in the International MBA program and at the University of California in the Executive Education Department. She is the author of The Nonverbal Advantage: Secrets and Science of Body Language at Work. For more information visit: www.silentlanguageofleaders.com

Bibliographic information

TitleThe Silent Language of Leaders: How Body Language Can Help--or Hurt--How You Lead
AuthorCarol Kinsey Goman, Ph.D.
Editionillustrated
PublisherJohn Wiley & Sons, 2011
ISBN1118028724, 9781118028728
Length288 pages
Subjects › 

Business & Economics / General
Business & Economics / Leadership
Business & Economics / Management
  
Export CitationBiBTeX EndNote RefMan