What Is Your Electronic Footprint?
What is Electronic Body Language?
You communicate using technology every day to get your work done. Sometimes, your message gets across while they miss your intent. Maybe you feel some team members are more or less committed. Technology helps us extend our reach, but often at the cost of losing the body language we rely on.
Do you Ever Wonder?
- How your electronic communications are being interpreted?
- What assumptions others are making about you based on your electronic habits?
- What judgments you make about the competence and credibility of others?
- How to accurately interpret silence during a teleconference call?
Many of us have learned, or been trained how to interpret non-verbal cues. We are pretty comfortable interpreting cues such as when someone sits back in their chair with their arms folded across their chest. Or rolls their eyes upward. Or shifts away from making eye contact.
But, to thrive in our use of electronic communications, we must understand the electronic equivalent to the body language we know. What are the signs that someone is not engaged? Bored? Not interested? Overwhelmed? Angry? What is crossing your arms like? What habits and behaviors do we exhibit that may be interpreted by another in a way other than how we intended?