Non-verbal communication: secrets women should know

Understanding the differences in the way men and women communicate can ease life at work and at home. Through her science-backed work, body language expert Tania Steyn reconnects people with their “primary language” by increasing self-awareness. She points out dissimilarities between the sexes’ communication styles, and non-verbal behaviour traps women can avoid to develop leadership presence. Learn more about lunch chasers, fire gazers and nest builders, and why you shouldn’t cross your arms in the workplace.  

Tania Steyn

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In ep. 101 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear and Helpful, Tania touches on

  • her involvement in “Science of People”

  • how learning the science of body language transformed her extreme shyness

  • what nonverbal communication is: much more than just the way you sit or walk

  • how our (prehistoric) brain reacts when we cannot see another person’s hands

  • what research focusing on blind people has taught us about facial expression

  • why adapting your body language through awareness can literally make you feel better

  • why women prefer a face-to-face communication style and men side-by-side, and how to foster emotional connection

  • what leave-taking behaviour looks like

  • lunch chasers, fire gazers and nest builders

  • 3 obstacles to women being perceived as leaders: unconscious bias, double-bind paradox and imposter syndrome

  • women in the workplace who inadvertently make themselves seem smaller, send non-verbal submissive signals and stay invisible

  • why you should not cross your arms in the workplace

  • the 3 types of eye contact

  • how research studies define charisma

  • how by changing your posture and body language, you can change your emotions

  • Tania’s 3 tips on human behaviour.

    Feel free to click on Home and browse this website for articles and podcasts on more fulfilling love relationships, easier parenting, and upping your emotional well-being.

    Here Tania describes the time her life fell apart, being a recovering people pleaser, and the influence of the caveman days.

    Read Dr. Micki Pistorius’ insights into the way men view relationships.

    Lees ook hoekom dr. Micki Pistorius sê dis in vroue se belang om mans as helde en krygers te sien.

     

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About Tania

Tania Steyn is a body language expert, human behaviour analyst and coach from Alberton. She offers talks, arbitration and courses on the power of body language, leadership, lie detection, negotiation, personal development, business, communication, relationships, the science of personalities, the science of persuasion, mastering people skills, the power of happiness and romance & dating body language. As a sideline, Tania works as a trauma counsellor. 

Contact details

Tel. 084 517 1933

Website: https://www.artofpeople.info/

Email address: Theartofpeople1@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tania-steyn


The free podcast series Calm, Clear & Helpful is available on iTunes, Spotify, Player FM, Pocket Casts and Iono.fm.

Music by Mart-Marie Snyman

Thumbnail image: Pexels. Model used.

Photographs of Tania Steyn: supplied

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