Non-Verbal Listening

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This paper discusses the importance of non-verbal communication. The paper reveals that successful communication involves a steady gaze, relaxed posture, responsive facial expressions and spontaneous gestures and that if these things are done, it may be said that the likelihood of a successful transmission of ideas and viewpoints is all the more likely.

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"There can scarcely be any doubt that non-verbal or otherwise inadvertent physical language can go a very long way towards complicating communication between individuals. The following paper will detail a non-verbal listening exercise which examines posture, eye contact, facial expression and gestures. Essentially, the exercise will involve the researcher exploring the differences between what an individual does when communicating with someone around whom he or she is comfortable and what an individual does when communicating with someone with whom he or she is not comfortable. As will become apparent, tensions between parties are often needlessly exacerbated by instinctive and usually unintended body language."

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