Sunday, October 09, 2005

A thought for all those meetings we attend each week:

UCLA’s Albert Mehrabian has studied the impact of speakers on audiences, finding that a speaker’s impact – favourable or not- is determined by three factors:

Verbal impressions (the words spoken) account for only 7% of the impact.
Vocal impressions (tone, range, appeal and "credibility" of the voice) account for 38% of impact
Visual impressions (our physical appearance, clothing, gestures, stance, eye contact etc) account for a huge 55% of impact.

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