Good morning and welcome to the Increase Reimpec podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 1222.

In a conversation a little bit ago, myself and a coach were talking about the importance of body language from the leader. Doesn't matter if your business, a business professional,

team captain, coach of your team, the way you carry yourself is an outward manifestation of what's

going on internally. Now, he says sometimes you have to fake it. Sometimes you don't want to incite chaos or

worry or doubt in the people who you're following, especially in sports. We always talked about how

when something bad happens in the game, the camera operator and director will often go to the opposing

team's coach, the coach who had the bad thing happen to their team, they're going to go to

that person because you're probably going to see some kind of body language that displays

frustration, anger, disdain, and some coaches have trained themselves to be stoic in those moments.

And I was telling them that many, many years, hundreds and hundreds of games inside of a

major league baseball dugout, there's something that I like to call the dugout lean.

So when something bad happens on the field, a misplay,

an error, a pitcher walks a couple batters, or something frustrating happens on the field,

players will lean back because we sit right up on the bar, right up close to the to the field,

we'll lean back to look over to see what the manager's response is.

And that's what people do. How is a leader responding? And there was this phrase, calm is contagious.

Calm is contagious. And so it's crazy. So be very mindful of how you carry yourself. So my invitation to

you, if you're a leader of any

kind and do whatever you do, carry yourself on purpose with purpose. Ask yourself, what am I portraying

with my body language? What am I showing? What do I want to show? And does my body reflect what I want to convey to everybody else?

So just something to think about how you carry yourself matters. Have a great day and we'll do it again next time.