Product Description

Body Language is the winner of the Non-fiction Travel Read 2009, BAA Heathrow Travel Product Awards - More than 23,000 votes were cast in a month-long nominations period, with votes coming in from across the world.

Your body language is on display almost all of the time…so isn’t it important you know what signal you’re sending? Discover how to use your body language to your advantage and at the same time learn how to decipher other people’s signals.

Research shows that up to 90% of communication is transmitted non-verbally and that the most successful people - in all walks of life - are intuitive in deciphering these signals. We may think we know how to use this ‘silent’ language but how many of us can actually use it well?

Body Language will help you:

• gain a deeper understanding of other people so you can ‘read’ their minds

• know what non-verbal signals you may be giving out to others and how to use this to communicate and gain the response you want

• notice if what someone says is completely at odds with what they are thinking or feeling

• learn how your ‘extremities’ can give you away (despite what’s coming out of your mouth).

• make a better impression in your social and work life by being aware of your ‘bodytalk’ (and that of others)...and more.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21771 in Books
• Published on: 2008-10-16
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 237 pages

Review

The year's best business books: "This book shows you how to use your body language to your advantage." Short List Magazine January 09 (readership 1.8 Million)

"It is a useful reference that can be taken on a short flight, skimmed and digested with ease….a convenient handbag (or manbag) sized read in a chatty prose style and I recommend it to beginners and masters of the subject alike." Andrea Reynolds, Director, Cordie, Supply Managment

From the Back Cover

This book will change the way you communicate forever.

Over half of our communication is through the body, but how many of us actually know how to use body language and, most importantly, use it well?

The power and influence of body language is huge. We all know how awkward it feels when someone looks at the floor when we speak and just how comfortable and easy it is to talk when someone looks interested.

Whether you need to sell an idea, get your point across, understand what other people really think, body language is at the root of all communication. Get it right and communicating with others will be a breeze, but get it wrong and you’re in for a struggle.

Body Language will make sure you get it right every time. In seven simple lessons you’ll become an expert at reading others and controlling your own gestures to get the response you want. You’ll discover a whole new language at your finger tips – welcome to the silent language of success!

About the Author

James Borg is a practising work psychologist and business consultant. He became interested in magic and 'mind-reading' at the age of 9 and subsequently was - a few years later - admitted as one of the youngest-ever members of the Magic Circle.

Customer Reviews

Bit of a let-down
I expected more from the author of 'Persuasion'
Alas, this book has been hastily written, devoid of fresh material, full of fillers and unnecessary repetition.

As far as body language books go, this is the weakest I've come across. Shame.

seemingly a rushed job!
this feels like a quickly pulled together book that was a publisher's/author's greed after the success of the last book. just seems to be a somewhat random, poorly organised and relatively badly written collection of "facts"; which themselves leave you feeling undernourised.

changes of terminology and the feeling you never actually get to the bones of the issue all lead to a book which i cannot recommend.

Highly disappointing
Body Language is a great example of when the back cover blurb doesn't match up to the content. The book claims that 'you'll become an expert at reading others and controlling your own gestures to get the response you want'. It says: 'This book will change the way you communicate forever'.

If I were writing the back cover blurb, I would instead say: 'This book confirms a lot of the stuff you already know'. And 'you will come across a jumble of ideas that don't translate into any practical benefit'.