Comments on: Eye Contact, Eye Communication and Eye Roll http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/ Create Your Communications Experience Sun, 20 May 2012 02:37:56 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Bert Decker http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1305 Bert Decker Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:46:28 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1305 Ah Mike, many thanks! Tell the world... Hope to see you soon too. Bert Ah Mike, many thanks! Tell the world…
Hope to see you soon too.
Bert

]]> By: mike mcallen http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1304 mike mcallen Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:40:08 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1304 One the most effective things I learned from my Decker course was the 3-5 seconds of eye contact while speaking. I have taken that and a bucnh of other great tips from that course! Thanks again Bert! Mike http://www.meetingspodcast.com One the most effective things I learned from my Decker course was the 3-5 seconds of eye contact while speaking. I have taken that and a bucnh of other great tips from that course! Thanks again Bert!

Mike
http://www.meetingspodcast.com

]]> By: Bert Decker http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1286 Bert Decker Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:38:27 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1286 Actually, the quote "The eyes are the window to the soul" is attributed to many, but the real source is the Bible! http://bit.ly/1O7Kl6 Thanks for your comments, and yes, everyone should keep the cameras rolling on themselves. Actually, the quote “The eyes are the window to the soul” is attributed to many, but the real source is the Bible! http://bit.ly/1O7Kl6

Thanks for your comments, and yes, everyone should keep the cameras rolling on themselves.

]]> By: Business Communication http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1282 Business Communication Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:10:55 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1282 Didn't Emerson say that the "eyes were the window to the soul?" One thing we do learn is that the face is the most trainable and convincing part of our non-verbal communication with others or an audience. Recording one's presentation and reviewing one's own delivery in light of non-verbal communication training can be enormously helpful. Let's keep our camera's rolling! Didn’t Emerson say that the “eyes were the window to the soul?” One thing we do learn is that the face is the most trainable and convincing part of our non-verbal communication with others or an audience. Recording one’s presentation and reviewing one’s own delivery in light of non-verbal communication training can be enormously helpful. Let’s keep our camera’s rolling!

]]> By: Bert Decker http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1232 Bert Decker Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:37:52 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1232 Thanks Max, coming from your great expertise I appreciate the comment. And Cameron is a bafflement - as is Obama. Both have the same eye contact problem, but with Obama it is obviously poor teleprompter skills. Ping-pong, 4 seconds one side and then 4 seconds the other. He needs coaching - it's all about eye communication. Bert Thanks Max, coming from your great expertise I appreciate the comment. And Cameron is a bafflement – as is Obama. Both have the same eye contact problem, but with Obama it is obviously poor teleprompter skills. Ping-pong, 4 seconds one side and then 4 seconds the other. He needs coaching – it’s all about eye communication.
Bert

]]> By: Max Atkinson http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1217 Max Atkinson Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:05:43 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1217 You are, of course, dead right about the importance of eye contact, which gets quite a lot of attention in my book 'Lend Me Your Ears'. One thing I talk about in relation to public speaking and presentation, which I'm sure you'll have noticed too, is what I call 'skewed' eye contact, where a speaker spends much more time looking at one half of the audience than at the other, thereby 'weakening audience involvement, to use your term, for quite extended periods of time. What continually surprises me in the UK is that people in very high places have this problem - e.g. Mrs Thatcher used to look 3 times to the left for every once she looked to the right and our current prime minister, Gordon Brown, and probable next prime minister David Cameron is afflicted with it. You can see Cameron doing it in a short video clip at http://bit.ly/3jumru and what really baffles me is that it's (a) so obvious, (b) damaging to his rapport with audiences and (c) so very easy to cure once you're aware of it! You are, of course, dead right about the importance of eye contact, which gets quite a lot of attention in my book ‘Lend Me Your Ears’. One thing I talk about in relation to public speaking and presentation, which I’m sure you’ll have noticed too, is what I call ‘skewed’ eye contact, where a speaker spends much more time looking at one half of the audience than at the other, thereby ‘weakening audience involvement, to use your term, for quite extended periods of time.

What continually surprises me in the UK is that people in very high places have this problem – e.g. Mrs Thatcher used to look 3 times to the left for every once she looked to the right and our current prime minister, Gordon Brown, and probable next prime minister David Cameron is afflicted with it.

You can see Cameron doing it in a short video clip at http://bit.ly/3jumru and what really baffles me is that it’s (a) so obvious, (b) damaging to his rapport with audiences and (c) so very easy to cure once you’re aware of it!

]]> By: Bert Decker http://decker.com/blog/2009/10/eye-contact-eye-communication-and-eye-roll/comment-page-1/#comment-1215 Bert Decker Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:45:09 +0000 http://decker.com/blog/?p=411#comment-1215 GREAT story Wendy, thanks! If only everyone knew how powerful eye communication was, we'd have a lot better communication. And could play in a lot more roles - on stage or in life. Appreciate your comments. Bert GREAT story Wendy, thanks! If only everyone knew how powerful eye communication was, we’d have a lot better communication. And could play in a lot more roles – on stage or in life.
Appreciate your comments.
Bert

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