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You Say More Than You Think: Use the New Body Language to Get What You Want!, the 7-day Plan |  | Authors: Janine Driver, Mariska van Aalst
Publisher: Crown Archetype
Category: Book
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Rating:  28 reviews
Sales Rank: 6338
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.7 x 1.1
ISBN: 0307453979
Dewey Decimal Number: 153.69
EAN: 9780307453976
ASIN: 0307453979
Publication Date: February 16, 2010
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Product Description
Now You’re Talking!
Do you want to be bulletproof at work, secure in your relationship, and content in your own skin? If so, it’s more important than ever to be aware of what your body is saying to the outside world. Unfortunately, most of what you’ve heard from other body language experts is wrong, and, as a result, your actions may be hurting, not helping, you.
With sass and a keen eye, media favorite Janine Driver teaches you the skills she used every day to stay alive during her fifteen years as a body-language expert at the ATF. Janine’s 7-day plan and her 7-second solutions teach you dozens of body language fixes to turn any interpersonal situation to your advantage. She reveals methods here that other experts refuse to share with the public, and she debunks major myths other experts swear are fact:
Giving more eye contact is key when you’re trying to impress someone. Not necessarily true. It’s actually more important where you point your belly button. This small body shift communicates true interest more powerfully than constant eye contact.
The “steeple” hand gesture will give you the upper hand during negotiations and business meetings. Wrong. Driver has seen this overbearing gesture backfire more often than not. Instead, she suggests two new steeples that give you power without making you seem overly aggressive: the Basketball Steeple and the A-OK Two-Fingered Steeple.
Happy people command power and attention by smiling just before they meet new people. Studies have shown that people who do this are viewed as Beta Leaders. Alpha leaders smile once they shake your hand and hear your name.
At a time when every advantage counts—and first impressions matter more than ever—this is the book to help you really get your message across.
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 You Say More Than You Think July 29, 2010
calliope
I can already "read" people better. I now know that people close to me lie a lot. A book every law official should read. It will help me with sales.
A Powerful Tool For Personal and Professional Life July 5, 2010
Kelly L. Watson (Lancaster, PA)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R270SS4DS3I6FS Reading body language is not mind reading, but it can give you powerful insights into the feelings and attitudes of the people around you. I loved this book's common-sense approach that emphasizes using body language as a springboard to better rapport with others. I also picked up a bunch of great techniques from the chapter on "Power Gestures" to use during my next public speaking engagement.
Quick, efficient, easy to deal with. June 16, 2010
Deborah Katz (SoCal)
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
I received my book quickly, efficiently, and the condition was actually better than expected. I wouldn't hesitate to use them again.
Body Language June 13, 2010
Yvonnee
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a book worth reading. The information helps me to communicate
more effectively as well as learn how to interact with others. Thank you.
 A Selling Tool for Her Certification Course June 12, 2010
D_shrink (Charleston, SC United States)
12 out of 19 found this review helpful
Let me begin by saying I have no skin in this game, as I am not hyping ANY OTHER book or Communication Improvement Skill course; I am merely giving a personal reaction to my interpretation of the written material as a mental health profession with over 35 years experience in the field.
The author makes many good points and the book is easy to read and follow with a fair number of black and white photos showing the before and after effect of each newly analyzed body language characteristic, but most disturbing is the continual encouragement to visit her official website [...]. I buy every book simply to be informed or entertained but not solicited. I am unsure how many agencies or companies would put great credence in a for-profit corporation issuing certifications. It has been my experience that most companies want job candidates and consultants to have degrees from established colleges/universities which are appropriately accredited. The book is full of first person testimonials from graduates of her course who proclaim miraculous reincarnations into far superior beings after taking the advertised course and after which they can lead their own groups, hopefully garnering some speaking engagements, as well. For an original and similar pep talk one can read Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People originally published many decades ago. It also has the same authoritarian flavor and doctrinaire game plan.
Many of the author's suggestion make a great deal of sense and are worth following, but in one instance she makes a great faux pas in stating that women wearing heels leads to an improvement in their posture. I would defy anyone to find an orthopedist, acting in his profession capacity, who would agree with that view, although as a male he would most likely approve of the arrow-pointed calves and the accentuated and protruding female derriere. At the same time it causes the stomach to protrude and causes an unnatural sway to the lower back known as LORDOSIS [medically described as an anteroposterior curvature of the spine] and less technically and less euphemistically as saddle back - think equestrian in this regard. Women wearing heels is the biggest cause of this. This last point is the only one I found of an inaccurate and misleading nature. As I have stated earlier in this assessment the book makes many good points, but I find it incomprehensible that a person can have a personality transformation in a mere seven days [as her course promises] of following pop culture dogma, although I am sure some proteges of the program will give anecdotal testimony to the contrary. My intention is to merely explain what you will be getting with this book. Your personality is the result of your entire lifetime experiences, be they good or bad, and a make-over in a week is simply not possible, unless one truly believes in reality TV shows. It's not a bad book, it is simply not a great book nor a must read.
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