The document outlines 4 steps to developing a powerful presence: 1) having a clear vision and understanding your purpose; 2) strengthening your intellectual focus; 3) energizing your physical body; and 4) improving your emotional intelligence and ability to connect with others. Each step is important for influencing, engaging, and inspiring others. The document emphasizes becoming fluent in body language, listening before speaking, and being authentic in communications.
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Body Intelligence - 4 steps to a powerful presence
1. Body Intelligence
4 Steps to a POWERFUL presence
Heidi Alexandra Pollard
CEO, UQ Power
Workplace Humanist
2. The world is in a constant state of flux and
an increasingly more VUCA environment
(volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous)
3. Despite all this change one constant has remained
the same – the ability to influence, engage, inspire,
relate and build rapport. Ie:
The ability to
communicate
The One Constant
4. Spotlight on USpotlight on U
What’s your biggestWhat’s your biggest
communication challenge?communication challenge?
5. How do you avoid getting sucked down into the
vicious vortex of overwhelm
7. 4 STEPS
TO POWER UP YOUR PRESENCE AND BECOME A
communication superhero
8. 4 steps to success
The effectiveness of your relationships, your ability to
build trust, your ability to assert yourself and handle
conflict and your ability to craft a powerful message in
person or in writing depends upon
you mastering 4 foundations:
IQ – Intellectually focused
EQ – Interpersonally connected
Body – Physically energised
Vision – Purposefully aligned
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WITHOUT VISION POWER WITH VISION POWER
Lack of faith in self Live a life of value
Disconnected from intuition Trust intuition and gut feelings
Unable to make decisions easily Have a sense of knowing and calm
No clear direction in life Make a difference in others lives
Known as: Strategic and inspiring
Step 1 - VISION – KNOW YOUR WHY
11. • Find creative ways to explore your purpose
• What impact do you want to have on the world?
WHAT’S YOUR VISION?
12. WITHOUT IQ POWER WITH IQ POWER
Lack of joy and spark Perform better at work
Unhelpful mind chatter More career & promotion success
Sense of struggling Sense of groundedness
Worry a lot Stable and secure
Known as: Knowledgeable and innovative.
Step 2 – IQ – KNOW YOUR WHAT
15. Stand in 2 circles one inside the other
•My life story…
•A passion I have outside of study/work is…
•My favourite book / movie at the moment is…
A GAME
OF FOCUS
16. WITHOUT BODY POWER WITH BODY POWER
Lack of self esteem & confidence Feel confident even in challenging
situations
Neglect own needs More assertive with needs
No ‘me time’ Say no when you need to
Out of touch with tangible feelings Radiate more energy
Known as: Energetic and magnetic.
Step 3 – BODY – YOUR HOW
17. You have to #startwithU by believing in U and your message.
If you don’t believe, no one else will because your body will tell
them so - every one can spot a phoney!
THE BODY NEVER LIES
18. The most powerful communication
tool at your disposal is not your
mouth, it’s your entire body.
What you wear. How you stand.
How you walk. How you talk. It all
matters!
Become fluent in body language
as your second language and
watch your results soar.
Step 3 – Use Your Whole Body
19. Understanding your body language and other physical
queues is very important when you are
communicating with others.
Your non-verbal communication skills are just as
important as your verbal skills.
The most important thing to ensure is congruence –
that your messages match your body, your dress,
your energy.
Powerful Body Language
20. - 7% of meaning is in the words that are spoken
-38% of meaning is paralinguistic – the way we say it
-55% of meaning is in body language & expression
WHY YOU MUST BECOME FLUENT
IN A SECOND LANGUAGE
21. “When it comes to body language,
there are some who have better vocabularies
than others.”
Doug Larson
26. WITHOUT EQ POWER WITH EQ POWER
Lack of confidence Communicate confidently
Unable to build rapport Able to read social cues
Lack of boundaries – give power
away
Build strong relationships
Closed off, shut down from others Open, compassionate &
understanding toward others
Known as: Charming and a connector.
Step 4 – EQ – KNOW YOUR WHO
31. What kind of leader do you want to be?
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32. The most powerful way to engage with and relate to others is
to listen first and ask second.
Too many people spend too much time on what they want to
TELL others rather than taking the time to stop, LISTEN and
ASK.
Leaders Listen First
34. Listen Then Ask Challenge
Person A – share with Person B the biggest lesson you learnt as a graduate.
Person B – listen first then only respond with questions
(no solving, telling or sharing your stuff)
35. U must CHANGE
U must GROW
U must GET UNCOMFORTABLE
#startwithU
36. Putting it all together
Lastly is the roof of the house.
The bonus 5th
step and that is to own your UQ Power.
Being authentic. Being real.
These four steps are your key to success:
- Job Applications
- Interview questions
- Presentations
- Teaching
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38. Tips on how to introduce yourself
Download Free Video Tutorial here
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What is in your daily diet
1.35pm Building Rapport and Engaging People The rapport phase is the opening of any successful facilitation or presentation. Quality interactions are only achieved when are truly engaging and building rapport with your audience. Building rapport and creating a climate of trust and understanding allows you to prepare the audience for the delivery of your content. Rapport is vital in all forms of communication and essential for conducting effective presentations and facilitating successful workshops, sessions, group work. In the role of facilitator, your task is to persuade and influence so the audience prefers your solution or idea over what they may have been doing in the past.
John Grinder and Richard Bandler researched how expert communicators were able to build rapport. They found that people like people who are like themselves. Rapport is established by pacing. Pacing is the process of matching and mirroring the verbal, para-verbal and body language of the other person to create likeness and similarities which creates rapport. Being in rapport means being alike both verbally and non verbally.
Professor Albert Mehrabian has pioneered the understanding of communications since the 1960s – today he spends his time researching, writing, and consulting as Professor of Psychology at UCLA. His work featured strongly in establishing early understanding of body language and non-verbal communications.
His research provided the basis for the widely quoted and often much over-simplified statistic for the effectiveness of spoken communications.
Here is a more precise (and necessarily detailed) representation of Mehrabian's findings than is typically cited or applied:
7% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in the words that are spoken.
38% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is paralinguistic (the way that the words are said).
55% of message pertaining to feelings and attitudes is in facial expression (and body language).
The main thing to remember is that the formula applies to communications of feelings and attitudes not just any communication.
One of the best ways to build rapport if you don’t know the attendees is to use universals. Universals are statements that are ‘true’ for all members in the audience, general statements that are universally accepted.
Here you are setting the scene or the big picture. For example:
We live in a world that…..
Have you ever found yourself in a situation where…..?
Have you noticed how ……..is happening more often today?
11.50am VISUAL BODY LANGUAGE
Show teenage Katy Perry Clip
Make eye contact
1.50pm Neutral Body Stance Practical There are no right or wrong stances for presenting or pitching. However it is important to remember that your body is a large communication vessel for sending messages to your audience and for switching your own brain on. In order to make sure the audience trusts you you need to build resonance!! AND you want your pitch to be meaningful and profitable. Imagine therefore the audience is in pain and your role in pitching is to teach them something but leave a void that they will need and want to pay for to have Enigma fix.
10.09am Page 1-2
Write responses on a flipchart.
Then get out the tell and ask laminex sheets and have them get up and line up (Before showing the slide)