The Broad Experience 54: Power and body language

The Broad Experience

Careers, Society & Culture, Business

5.0 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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In the summer I did a show about communication at the office, but it left out one glaring component: body language. So today we tackle hunching, spread legs, eye contact, and kissing by gender - all in a business setting. I speak to Yale psychology professor Marianne LaFrance about how men and women play up their power, or lack of it, through non-verbal communication at work. 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	Welcome to the Broad Experience, the show about women, the workplace and success. I'm Ashley Milntight.
0:07.9	This time, the messages we send at work not through what we say, but through what we don't say.
0:14.0	You take a normal body and you make it even more compact. That's a sign of both, quote, femininity.
0:20.4	It's also a sign of low power.
0:22.9	He who has the power takes up more room.
0:26.1	And what do you do when you go to a meeting prepared to do business and you're greeted formally?
0:32.1	Quite often I get pulled in for a kiss and I've had one person tell me not to be so formal.
0:39.0	It's all joking. It's all intended to be very nice.
0:42.5	Or is it?
0:43.8	Coming up, power and body language at work.
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1:38.2	Several months ago, I did a show on communication at the office, but that show only covered
1:43.1	verbal communication, and so much of our communication is non-verbal.
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