Based on a TED talk by Amy Cuddy “ Your Body Language shapes who you are .”

1. Your Body
Your Language
Based on a TED talk by Amy Cuddy
“ Your Body Language shapes who you are .”

2. Language is a more recent technology. Your
Body Language, your eyes, your energy will
come through to your audience even before
your start speaking.
Peter Guber
Entrepreneur

3. Having a Bad Luck at
Success ?

4. What
could be
the
problem?

5. Then maybe it’s time you took
a look at yourself.

6. If you see a bit of yourself in them then
that’s your problem right there!

7. Body Language
determines
how we judge others,
how they judge us and
what the outcomes are.

8. But we forgot the most important audience.

9. OURSELVES!
We are also influenced by
our thoughts. our feelings. our physiology.
our non-verbals.

10. So what could be
the Solution?

11. Interested in Power Dynamics
And the non-verbal expressions of
power and dominance.
Let’s Meet,

12. Amy believes that our success is
dependant on how we express
power and dominance.

13. How do
we show
power and
dominance?

14. It’s about opening up.
All over the animal kingdom its about expanding.

15. Its the same for us
too.
When we feel
powerful we,
make ourselves BIG,
we stretch out,
take up space.

16. Where as when we feel
powerless.
We do the exact opposite.
We make ourselves small.

17. Powerful vs Powerless
We have a tendency to
compliment the other
person’s non-verbals.

18. So where does this
POWER
come from?

19. Amy found that this power was related to gender as
well as amount participation by an individual.
So she started wondering if we can ,
Fake power?
to increase our participation.

20. We know, Our minds change our bodies.
But
Does our bodies change our minds?
But
How?

21. Comparing the minds and bodies of both
Powerful and Powerless people,
Amy found that they differ both
mentally and physiologically.

22. Mentally,
Powerful people are,
More confident.
More assertive.
More optimistic.
They take more risks and
think abstractly.

23. Physiologically
There was a difference in the level of
Testosterone and Cortisol
hormones.
(Dominance) (Stress)
Power is not only about dominance it’s
also about how stress reactive you are.

24. An experiment of Role Changing
It was found that
By Faking it they felt more powerful.
High Power Posing

25. Power Posing had
significant hormone
changes in their body.

26. People judge high power posers more positively.
So next time before you face a stressful situation.
Take a minute
Make a power pose.
Get your testosterone up. Get your cortisol down.
Show them who you truly are!!

27. Amy Cuddy shares her story on how she realised,
“You should not fake it till you make it,
fake it until you become it”

28. It’s time to
make yourself
feel powerful .

29. Try a power pose &
Share the Science.

30. Recap
● What is the problem we face?
● How it effects us?
● The powerful and the powerless.
● How they differ?
● Faking the power.
● What we should do?
● Fake it till you become it.

31. Thank You .

32. Disclaimer
Created by Nived R Nambiar, MEC Cochin, during an internship by
Prof. Sameer Mathur, IIM Lucknow.
www.IIMInternship.com