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The Broad Experience

Episode 167: Power and Body Language (re-release)

The Broad Experience

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0592 Ratings

🗓️ 9 December 2020

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Today we revisit the theme of body language in the workplace: hunching, spread legs, eye contact, and kissing - all in a business setting. We meet Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance, who discusses how men and women play up their power, or lack of it, through non-verbal communication. And Financial Times journalist Elaine Moore talks about how she deals with unwanted male kisses at business meetings. 

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0:00.0

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0:10.8

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0:20.3

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0:21.9

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0:27.4

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0:30.5

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0:33.8

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0:35.0

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0:35.9

But for now, just relax.

0:41.8

Hey, it's Ashley. I am prepping a new show for you, but it's not quite ready this week. So in the meantime, I'm re-releasing this episode on Power and Body Language, because it's one of my favorites from over the years.

0:55.8

There's a lot in here that is still totally relevant today, and some other things I hope

1:01.5

have changed. Here's the show.

1:16.1

Welcome to The Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace, and success.

1:17.3

I'm Ashley Melentight.

1:23.2

This time, the messages we send at work, not through what we say, but through what we don't say.

1:26.5

You take a normal body and you make it even more compact.

1:29.7

That's a sign of both, quote, femininity.

1:31.8

It's also a sign of low power.

1:35.3

He who has the power takes up more room.

1:39.1

And what do you do when you go to a meeting prepared to do business and you're greeted warmly?

1:41.9

Quite often I get pulled in for a kiss

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