Your gestures speak volumes about you...
1 November 2012
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We are all well aware of the importance of the body, gestures, attitudes, postures, facial features, and facial expressions in understanding individual behavior. Morpho-gestural analysis is, in fact, a complex and interesting tool for analyzing and interpreting functioning. Our body, unknowingly, speaks, and its expressive power goes far beyond what one might think at first glance. To grasp the meaning(s), it is to start from the visible, apparent and directly observable face of the personality to access its hidden face. This makes it possible to understand and anticipate many reactions.
Are gestures and attitudes determining factors in our professional relationships?
They probably are.
In companies, employees are expected to have attitudes and behaviors corresponding to their status and function. If they do not have the expected postures, facial expressions, or even looks and intonations, they may shock or disappoint in that they no longer fit with the idea, the fantasy linked to their profession, to their role. This can go as far as questioning the professional capacities of the individual in question. In some professions, we expect - we demand, it should be said to be more precise - politeness, a real capacity for welcome, empathy, compassion which are manifested by a smile, a helping hand, etc. If these behaviors are not respected, the employee will be considered as not having fully assumed his functions.
What do these behaviors teach us about others and ourselves?
Often, we find ourselves prisoners of the morpho-gestural of the other. We find ourselves trapped by immediate sympathy or antipathy, directly linked to inappropriate behavior that is nevertheless dictated only by professional codes.
It also seems that these physical behaviors inform us about our confidences, our certainties, our doubts and our blockages. Often, to be reassured, to be aware of the effect we have on the other, we focus on automatic signs of recognition such as a smile, a look, head movements, hand gestures…
It is with this in mind that some recruiters today like to put people at ease physically before engaging in dialogue.
Can we control our morpho-gestural?
We would be tempted here to affirm that not so much the bodily universe proves to be less controllable than the discourse that one produces. Gesture is, in fact, the only language of the young child, to whom oral language is subsequently taught. When the latter integrates language, the gestural remains, unconsciously. It is, of course, possible to work on its codes and rituals and to have, in this way, composed gestures - which will, however, be quickly erased in case of too strong emotion.
If you cannot change your behavior, you can make the effort to change your attitude. It is not at all a question of trying to resemble someone you are not, but rather of questioning the behavioral signals you emit, those that are negative and/or that can be detrimental in a professional environment - which it would therefore be good to correct -, and those that belong to us, which certainly should not be modified. Composing a character is therefore not the solution. It is wiser to fully realize what you are.
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
Are gestures and attitudes determining factors in our professional relationships?
They probably are.
In companies, employees are expected to have attitudes and behaviors corresponding to their status and function. If they do not have the expected postures, facial expressions, or even looks and intonations, they may shock or disappoint in that they no longer fit with the idea, the fantasy linked to their profession, to their role. This can go as far as questioning the professional capacities of the individual in question. In some professions, we expect - we demand, it should be said to be more precise - politeness, a real capacity for welcome, empathy, compassion which are manifested by a smile, a helping hand, etc. If these behaviors are not respected, the employee will be considered as not having fully assumed his functions.
What do these behaviors teach us about others and ourselves?
Often, we find ourselves prisoners of the morpho-gestural of the other. We find ourselves trapped by immediate sympathy or antipathy, directly linked to inappropriate behavior that is nevertheless dictated only by professional codes.
It also seems that these physical behaviors inform us about our confidences, our certainties, our doubts and our blockages. Often, to be reassured, to be aware of the effect we have on the other, we focus on automatic signs of recognition such as a smile, a look, head movements, hand gestures…
It is with this in mind that some recruiters today like to put people at ease physically before engaging in dialogue.
Can we control our morpho-gestural?
We would be tempted here to affirm that not so much the bodily universe proves to be less controllable than the discourse that one produces. Gesture is, in fact, the only language of the young child, to whom oral language is subsequently taught. When the latter integrates language, the gestural remains, unconsciously. It is, of course, possible to work on its codes and rituals and to have, in this way, composed gestures - which will, however, be quickly erased in case of too strong emotion.
If you cannot change your behavior, you can make the effort to change your attitude. It is not at all a question of trying to resemble someone you are not, but rather of questioning the behavioral signals you emit, those that are negative and/or that can be detrimental in a professional environment - which it would therefore be good to correct -, and those that belong to us, which certainly should not be modified. Composing a character is therefore not the solution. It is wiser to fully realize what you are.
Article written by The ReKrute.com team
