The Hidden Power of Smiling DiscussionYour non-verbal, especially your face communicates over 65 percent of your message! If you don’t believe it, think of all of the ways you can say these 3 words:
“I love you”
The fact that you can love your family and your favorite food and anything in between, indicates that those 3 words holds many different meanings and the way that we change our meaning is through our non-verbals. I’m willing to bet you even say those 3 words in a way that I would know that you actually hated me (paravocals).
Because of this, our non-verbal behavior is so important when we do a speech. It must be consistent with our verbals.Keep this in mind as you listen and watch this speaker’s non-verbal behavior as you complete this assignment.
First, watch Ron Gutman’s “The Hidden Power of Smiling” TED Talks.
The Hidden Power of Smiling” by Ron Gutman, Ted Talk is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Discuss this speaker’s non-verbals and how it impacted his delivery and how his message can impact your communication style?
Comment on two of your classmates discussions and further their discussion by using the Mind Your ABCs as explained below.
Mind Your ABCs when replying to others.Do not simply respond with “I agree” or with short one-sentence replies.
Remember you do not want other’s using simple comments to reply to you , so you shouldn’t either.
Use the ABC approach when writing responses:
Acknowledge your classmates’ posts. React to their ideas, make observations, ask questions about what they’ve said, or answer a question posed in a previous post. You are expected to read all of your classmates’ posts and responses throughout the module discussion. Doing so will allow you to have a better sense of your classmates’ opinions, just like in a face-to-face class.
Build upon these posts by providing additional details, ideas, personal perspectives, interpretations, answers, or links to interesting, relevant articles.
Conclude with a question or a new idea to further stimulate the discussion. Be sure to respond to the questions asked of you.