860: The Science of Compelling Body Language with Richard Newman
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 27 April 2023
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Richard Newman reveals insights on the small–but impactful–shifts anyone can make to become a more powerful communicator.
— YOU’LL LEARN —
1) How to maximize your impact with two hand gestures.
2) The key to looking like a charismatic leader.
3) The most important question to ask before any presentation.
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— ABOUT RICHARD —
Richard is the Founder of Body Talk. Over the past 22 years his team have trained over 120,000 business leaders around the world, to improve their communication and impact, including one client who gained over $1 Billion in new business in just one year, using the strategies that Richard teaches.
• Research: “Non-Verbal Presence: How Changing Your Behaviour Can Increase Your Ratings for Persuasion, Leadership and Confidence” by Richard Newman, Adrian Furnham, Laura Weis, Marcus Gee, Roxana Cardos, Alixe Lay, Alistair McClelland
• Book: Lift Your Impact: Transform Your Mindset, Influence, and Future to Elevate Your Work, Team, and Life (website)
• Book: You Were Born to Speak
• Website: UKBodyTalk.com
— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —
• Software: Mentimeter.com
• Book: Peoplewatching: The Desmond Morris Guide to Body Language by Desmond Morris
• Book: Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins
• Book: Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within by David Goggins
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete LeCaites. |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 806 of The Richard Newman. |
| 0:23.0 | This episode has so much of the stuff I love most about my interviews with guests. |
| 0:28.0 | In that we've got some very authoritative, hard-hitting, high-quality science research base. |
| 0:34.0 | We've got a benefit. |
| 0:36.0 | I think we all want looking more compelling and confident and having more gravitas, executive presence, and communications. |
| 0:43.0 | By doing some things that are super easy to do. |
| 0:47.0 | It's like, ooh, a tiny bit of effort for a huge amount of benefit. |
| 0:50.0 | That's well-established by a scientific research, as opposed to blowing smoke. |
| 0:55.0 | Sign me up. |
| 0:56.0 | So Richard, he brought the goods in a really big way. |
| 1:00.0 | So I'm excited to share this conversation with you. |
| 1:03.0 | You're going to learn a bunch and, namely, one, had a maximizer impact with two hand gestures. |
| 1:09.0 | Two, the key to looking like a charismatic leader. |
| 1:12.0 | And three, the most important question to ask before any presentation. |
| 1:16.0 | So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcripts or the links to items that we've referenced, please visit us over at awesometyourjob.com. |
| 1:22.0 | There you'll find an easy link to the cool research study that Richard was co-author of. |
| 1:30.0 | As well as a bunch of other cool resources over at awesometyourjob.com. |
| 1:33.0 | Such as the Golden Nugget email list, which gives you a summary write-up of the action will take away. |
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