The Process to a Captivating Speech

1. How does the speaker gain the listeners’ attention?
She begins by offering to give the audience a free tip concerning day to day living. In close succession, she chooses to engage the audience in a little exercise that seems to mildly explain what the audience is to expect from her speech. In the exercise, she points out some nitty-gritty stuff that the audience may be doing at the moment, and states that this will be featured later in the talk. Additionally, she introduces the subject topic of body language in a humorous manner that gets the audience completely involved.
2. How does the speaker build her credibility?
The speaker mentions lightly the fact that science, specifically social science, has contributed a lot to the understanding of the effects of body language on judgments. She then goes ahead to mention that she is in fact, a social psychologist, and has studied extensively the field of prejudice. In addition, she completes her credibility by stating that she also teaches at a competitive business school.
3. What is the speaker’s purpose?
The general purpose of the speaker that comes across is to explain how body language or non-verbal behavior influences communication and interactions: how we view other people and how they view us. Additionally, she breaks it down to effect the understanding that non-verbal expressions also have a bearing on how powerful or weak we feel.
4. What types of support are used by the speaker?
The speaker utilizes examples extensively in relaying her message. She provides them mostly in form of pictorials, and even videos as in the case of the handshake. She also uses testimony to show how body language affords our judgment of others. In addition, she also expansively employs the use ...

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...pacity to look and feel confident. People tend to judge us based on our own individual body language. So if we assume a posture that tells of weakness, then that is what is understood by others. But this can be overturned, if we learn to utilize only a few minutes of our time, just as the speaker suggests, to properly constitute our mindset to adapt to a particular situation, which will, without a doubt, result in much pleasant outcomes. The fact that the science offers evidence of the same as depicted in the speech also serves to cement my agreement with this suggestion. It is clear that indeed, how we communicate non-verbally has a significant bearing on how we feel about ourselves in any given situation. Therefore, just as stated by the speaker, we can change how we see ourselves by employing simple tweaks in our lives, such as occasionally trying the power pose.