Nonverbal communication involves conveying messages through visual cues such as facial expressions, gestures, and body language, accounting for a significant portion of interpersonal interactions. It offers advantages in emphasizing and clarifying verbal messages, but has limitations in facilitating lengthy discussions and understanding complex ideas. Effective nonverbal communication requires careful observation and awareness of unspoken behaviors to improve interpersonal skills.
The presentation outlines nonverbal communication, its characteristics, forms, advantages, disadvantages, significance, guidelines, and conclusion.
Explains the process and elements of nonverbal communication, highlighting its importance in conveying emotions and information beyond spoken language.
Details various forms of nonverbal communication: facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, touch, and spatial awareness, explaining their roles and meanings.
Lists advantages such as clear explanations, knowledge transfer, feeling exchange, and time-saving benefits in communication, particularly in professional settings.
Outlines the limitations, including difficulty in lengthy discussions, misunderstanding, unavailability in public contexts, and less influence.
Highlights the critical role of nonverbal cues in conveying meanings and reflecting true feelings, noting that 65-93% of meaning is nonverbal.
Provides practical tips for improving nonverbal communication effectiveness, including awareness of behaviors and observing clusters of nonverbal messages.
Reaffirms the importance of nonverbal communication in expressing feelings and efficiently conveying messages.
Lists references used in the presentation and acknowledges contributors to the work.
OUTLINE
• Nonverbal communication
• Characteristics of nonverbal communication
• Forms of nonverbal communication
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Significance
• Guidelines
• Conclusion
3.
Non Verbal communicationis the process of
communication through sending and receiving (mostly
visible) cues between people.
Facial expression
Gesture
Body language
Posture
Eye contact
Paralanguage
4.
CHARACTERISTICS OF NONVERBAL
COMMUNICATIONS
• Nonverbal communications is present in
most of interpersonal conversations,
including communication with the use of
emoticons.
• Nonverbal communications conveys more
information than verbal communication.
• It is possible that, in a conversation only
35% of the message is conveyed by the
words, the other 65% is conveyed through
nonverbal communication
5.
• Due touse of facial expression, hand movements, etc. it is considered
above verbal communication
• Nonverbal communication is the primary means of communicating
emotions . The facial expression show that person is happy or sad.
• Nonverbal communication is meta communicative. It includes sign
language(kinesics) to give info or gives indication of feelings etc.
• Facial expressions, body movements and eye contacts, touching and
other behaviors are the major part of nonverbal communications
6.
FORMS OF NONVERBALCOMMUNICATION
•FACIAL EXPRESSION
•BODY MOVEMENTS
AND POSTURES
•EYE CONTACT
•TOUCH
•SPACE
•GESTURE
7.
FACIAL EXPRESSION
•It is the most commonly used form of communication.
• It reflects emotions, feelings and attitudes.
• Styles of expression are used worldwide.
GESTURE
• It includes a persons attitude or movements.
• Happy moments shows different gestures than a sad moment.
8.
EYE CONTACT
•Staring- Challenges and warnings.
• Glances- Socially acceptable timings.
• Appraisal- Interest indication.
BODY MOVEMENTS & POSTURES
• Reaction of an invasion of your space
• Getting defensive in a danger situation
• Becoming aggressive in adverse situation.
9.
TOUCH
• Touchcan communicate power, empathy and
understanding.
• Touch and being touched is essential in life.
SPACE
• Area around one where no one allowed to enter.
• One draws his/her own interpersonal space
10.
ADVANTAGES
• Clearexplanation
Through non-verbal symbols we can support words or
verbal communication.
• That is, non-verbal symbols provide clear explanation to
verbal communication.
• Re-state
Facial expressions and body movements restate or emphasize
our views and opinions.
11.
• Knowledge transfer
Non-verbal cues or signals are only way to transfer knowledge to deaf
and dumb persons.
• Exchange of feeling
Non-verbal symbols are natural and efficient tools for exchanging
feelings.
• Time saving
In a busy business center or in a factory executives and supervisions
provides information using nonverbal signals
12.
DISADVANTAGES
• Wecan not have long conversation.
• We can not discuss the particulars of our message.
• It is difficult to understand and requires a lot of repetitions.
• It can not be used as a public tool for communication.
• It is less influential and can not be used everywhere.
13.
Significance of Non-Verbal
Communication
• It Conveys Meanings
Anywhere in the world 65-93% of the meaning of the
message lies in the non-verbal aspect.
• It Reflects Unspoken
Non-Verbal messages conveys “True Feelings”
14.
Guidelines of theeffective non-verbal
communication
• You can’t read people “Like a Book”
• Consider your non-verbal behavior
that improve your inter-personal skills
• By paying closer attention to people’s
unspoken behaviors'
• Observe non-verbal messages in clusters
• Be cautious while generalizing the non-verbal
cues.
15.
CONCLUSION
• Nonverbalcommunication is the very important form of
communication.
• Way of expressing the feelings is very effective.
• It is efficient way to convey message.
• Expression, eye contact are most important
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