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Enjoy your (traditional) culture – a model of connected thinking

08-10-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Enjoy your (traditional) culture – a model of connected thinking

When talking to Chinese here in Germany I often face a strong affinity to their own culture. Once I heard that an ancient book, probably written three – or four hundred years ago, is still listed on the book charts. It is and that astonished me really very, very popular regarding younger people. This could not be as possible in Germany as it is in China. 😉

When showing my astonishment the Chinese looked at me not understanding my astonishment. They were convinced that being connected to their cultural roots is a self-evidence.

Two weeks ago I talked to a Chinese woman who finished her IT-study and who had decided to earn her income not by working as an IT-specialist but by painting.

Of course she had been busy as an artist for

The Importance of Nonverbal Communication for expatriats

By: Ulrich Sollmann

07-10-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

The Importance of Nonverbal Communication for expatriats

Using effectively nonverbal communication when moving and relocating overseas is quite an important issue for people who go a country where they will meet very different cultural influences. I right now do not think especially about tourists but about people who have to live in a foreign country for quite a long time, as student, manager, representative of some organisation andsoon.

Spoken language is only7% to 35% of communication. The majority of our feelings and intentions are sent through nonverbal communication. Moreover we tend to search for signals when verbal messages are unclear or ambiguous.

Wordless messages or kinesics are the way we communicate by ………….

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

By: Ulrich Sollmann

05-10-2012

Body language, nonverbal communication, psychology

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

I remember the report of a female client talking about her childhood and expressing the specific, typical aspect of relationship between her and her mother.

When she had done something (wrong) or when the mother disagreed with the one or the other aspect of what my client had done as a child, her mother used to address her daughter with the following word: “Come to me, look into my eyes and tell me the truth. What have you done, didn’t you know, that I disagree with what you say.

Tell me the truth. And don`t forget, …………

„Sex in the soul“ – what can your eyes reveale?

By: Ulrich Sollmann

03-10-2012

nonverbal communication, science

“Sex in the soul“ – what can your eyes reveale?

Of course you remember when the pupil widens or closes. Of course you know about the importance of this process in the eyes. But do you know why this happens? Do you know what it means?

About fifty or sixty years ago scientist believed that the process of widening or closing notes your sexual orientation. Gero from the Cornell University was convinced about the proof in his study on such eyes`reaction. He was convinced that the widening of the pupil shows if one is heterosexual or homosexual or …………..

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

By: Ulrich Sollmann

01-10-2012

Body language, News, nonverbal communication

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

Attraction and competence change from distance to distance, so to say. They are not the same even if it is the same person. Results of a survey show that the perception of attraction and competence change the closer you get to someone. In addition to these results one could say attraction and competence are not fixed characters or features. These results also show how important the individual perception, one`s own awareness is. It also points out that these characters are directly influenced by nonverbal communication…………….if you are interested have a look into the following link.

Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

By: Ulrich Sollmann

26-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

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Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

This German manager shows a strong facial expression while talking. He seems as if he needs the panel and the audience as an vital and indispensable) part of his self-expression and self-confidence. Facing someone, looking at someone, making contact to someone, seems a very substantial manner of reassurance himself.

One could think he asks himself unconsciously: What is the resonance in the face of the other when I say this or that? What is the echo in the panel when I look at all the others?

This is a common habit of presenting oneself on ………..

Children…………….

By: Ulrich Sollmann

25-09-2012

intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Children don`t harm anybody.

Don`t harm children.

Save our Children

http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/menschenrechtler-prangern-gewalt-gegen-kinder-in-syrien-an-a-857711.html

Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

By: Ulrich Sollmann

23-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

The Chinese manager talks with a strong voice, expresses directly and clearly what he wants to say. He now and then looks at the moderator and faces him as the important counterpart in this rhetoric structure. It seems that he not really directly seeks for direct (eye-) contact to the audience. He is there on the panel, knows about his role to answer the question and to be there as the invited representative.

Of course he shows facial expression but it seems that this expression is more likely to be his attitude rather than to support his words and his habit of talking, in order to support his words and the for the moment specific meaning.

Facial expression seems for him (and the Chinese culture ?) to be more like a sequence of familiar “facial positions”. With whatever meaning at all. And yet……………………….

Friendly souverenity of a German Manager – Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – (video) 2

By: Ulrich Sollmann

22-09-2012

nonverbal communication, society

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Friendly souverenity of a German Manager – Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – (video) 2

This German manager looks very friendly. His facial expression is open and his eyes want to reach everybody on the panel and in the audience. His facial expression supports his words by an obvious modulation of intonation.

Looking around to the others on the panel brings up to my mind the idea of: making contact to everybody there, ant taking this as important nonverbal communication, shows that it is important for him to be in contact with, in order to answer the question or to show his position, concerning the one or the other issue he is asked to talk about. Behaving like this gives a kind of sovereignty. This is ……………..

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

By: Ulrich Sollmann

21-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

Basic differences – observing managers on stage while joining a panel discussion at the China-Germany business forum in Cologne 14^th of September in Cologne.

You can at once realize basic obvious differences in behavior patterns. While the Chinese managers mostly directly face the audience or the moderator answering their questions, German managers more often look around to the audience, the moderator, the other managers on the panel and back. They instead of the Chinese managers take the panel and the stage as a space where they move around by looking. Answering the questions changes into a scenario of a visual dialogue. This dialogue is supported by a rich facial expression.

Chinese managers instead of this more often look ……….

Enjoy your (traditional) culture – a model of connected thinking

The Importance of Nonverbal Communication for expatriats

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

„Sex in the soul“ – what can your eyes reveale?

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

Children…………….

Friendly souverenity of a German Manager – Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – (video) 2

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

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