Reading this article, I learned several things, but I'll focus on two of them in this blog.
One is that getting some feedback from other people is very useful to improve our performance. Like Katy Keim, who realized for the first time that "her posture was slightly standoffish" by watching herself on video, many people may be doing low-power posture unconsciously. When I did my presentation last term, Dave told me that I was pointing my slides too many times. I was actually nervous at that time, so maybe my stress came out in that way. Having received this feedback, I looked back at myself and noticed that I also pointed my slides in the previous presentations. Although I had known that how I look influences my presentation and I did tried to appear confident, my posture was telling to the audience, "I'm nervous right now!" I was doing this unconsciously. But I think I won't do it again because now I know I tend to do this when doing presentation(the situation I feel nervous.) In our leadership classes, we have practiced power posing several times and we always get some feedback. I think we're lucky to be in the situation that our friedns give us feedback, so I hope we can help each other to improve ourselves.
The other thing is that not only avoiding low-power postures such as "hunching over a Smartphone before a meeting or presentation" but also making power postures purposely have a positive impact to our performance. I was happy to know this because if we master the power pose by practicing it, it will be one of the strengths for us.
I wish I had a feedback from Dave as well! Ha ha ha:)
返信削除I didn't have a specific feedback after my presentation last term. I do know that I didn't do 100% perfectly on my presentation, but that didn't give any change to me. I think taking a video of your self and see yourself from an another aspect might be significant to improve your presentation, but I thought it would be kind of embarrassing. Maybe as you know from me saying "embarrassing", I'm quite shy, and get blushed easily. Plus, my posture isn't standoffish, but it lack's o confidence. Well, for now I would really want to have some feedback, so if you think anything part of me that I should improve, please tell me~!
Thank you for leaving your comment Maya!
返信削除I didn't know that you were shy until I read your comment here, because you were so friendly when we met for the first time in March, and you also play an active role in class discussions. Maybe being confident is quite difficult for all of us. What we need is to practice to "appear confident." Let's practice this term and help each other!
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