How to Effectively Use Your Body Language as a Tour Leader - Body Language Tips
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 มิ.ย. 2024
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When you think about using your body language effectively, what comes to mind? Is it speaking with your hands? Introducing yourself with a strong handshake? Maintaining eye contact or smiling? What about your posture or the way you move?
The reality is that body language often refers to the shared, non-verbal cues that exist between human beings. We often think of gestures, posture, eye contact and facial expressions, but other elements include proxemics (closeness or personal space), paralanguage (the pitch, tone and speed of speech) as well as the myriad of unconscious physiological changes that often express themselves unintentionally (think blinking a lot or sweating when nervous)
There is no question that non-verbal communication is a complex but integral part of our overall communication as a tour guide, but often times we remain totally unaware of our non-verbal behaviour.
So, in the spirit of becoming better tour guides, leaders and performers, let’s bring some mindfulness to how we are using our bodies to communicate. In this video, we’ll look at six techniques and tactics for being more effective with our body language, as well as look at a number of common mistakes to avoid.
Small things like turning your back to people, fidgeting, looking over shoulders, pacing or hunching your body may all be sending messages that you don’t intend to.
Because this is such a large and important topic, we also created a bonus resource for those who want to take their body language skills to the next level.
We went out and researched the web for the best body language experts we could find and put together five of our favourite video lessons. We hear from Vanessa Van Edwards and the Science of People, Allan Pease in his inspirational TED talk on body language and other tips from the Stanford School of Business.
These short instructional clips each tackle a unique element of our non-verbal communication and are the perfect addition to the tips we share in this video. To access these powerful video lessons, simply download a copy of our complimentary PDF resource: ‘Effectively Using Your Body Language - 5 Video Lessons'
Mastering effective body language is a skill that takes a lot of practice and a deep focus on your own non-verbal behaviours. The first step, as with most things, is bringing awareness to what your body is doing. Afterwards, you can then experiment with some of the effective body language techniques used by others and see how they fit with your personal communication style.
The techniques, do’s and don’ts we share in this video will give you a bit of inspiration to get started, but then take your training to the next level with the expert video lessons in our bonus PDF.
Want to learn more about the specific hand gestures you can use while speaking? Check out our other video 'What To Do with your Hands while Speaking? Effective Hand Gestures for Tour Guides’ www.beabetterguide.com/video-h...
All the best,
Kelsey T
Founder, Be a Better Guide
Hi!!! I have just found you and I loved your enthusiasm and generosity by sharing these amazing tips!! I have been a tour guide since 25 years but with a huge break in between ( motherhood) I have returned to the lovely world of tour guiding since last year and now here, where I live ( Qatar),tourism is on its very first steps and therefore there are sooooo many new tourist guides being rapidly trained ( a week and half training ) so I have shared your channel and videos with the whole tour guide community in Qatar and I hope they make a good use of your tips !!! And add many more subscribers
Thx again
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So useful! Thank you very much. Im from Argentina and whenever I need tips for my job, I look for your videos.They go straight to the point 😊
Thanks for the tips. I am a tour guide and a teacher. I teach Spanish and English as a foreign language and your videos are a great resource to my lessons. Thanks a lot. Greetings from Bariloche, Argentina.
I've enjoyed these tutorials so much. Thank you for your leadership in the guiding community.
wow... theres a channel for guide and tour leader!!! well I subscribe right away... cheers brother...
hey hi there, thank you very much for uploading such an informative video. i am planning to setting up my own walking tour soon, and i will definetly follow your advice, cheers
interesante canal, para poner en practica todas sus recomendaciones. gracias
Hey! Thank you I'm starting as a guide u helped me
Thanks for good information
Finished Watching? Join us over in the comments section at Be a Better Guide to share your input and see what others are saying. What body language advice would you share with the be a Better guide community? Were there any mistakes you corrected or techniques that you found helpful? We’d love your input. www.beabetterguide.com/how-to-effectively-use-your-body-language-as-a-tour-leader/#comments
You are awesome Kelsey.
You are amazing. Thank you for sharing this video
Wow! i made most mistakes that you mentioned. Thank you!!!
Thank you bro
I am in a play and I have to play the role of tour guide...I m really bad at acting ngl
My teacher pointed me out saying I wasn't having the confidence or body language
So I m trying to look for some tips. I will update tomorrow after final rehearsal wish me luck 😭✊
Amezing
And - if you don't mind - a very important trick: don't show that you are so very nervous, moving your hands so much. "Keep a relaxed posture" means you are not making your audience dizzy, while trying to follow your hands moving all over.
If you cannot stop the movement, find a clipboard. This will make you aware of unwanted extra-movements. You can use some mimic instead... Is much easier for your listeners. It is normal to show a castle, a tower, a balcony you are speaking about, but do NOT move your hands non stop.
Great tip Alex, fiddling is a telltale sign of nervousness.
But as long as your hands aren't distracting, I wouldn't worry about using too many descriptive hand motions. Actually, studies have found that using more hand gestures can engage our audience as well as help them better understand what we are saying. Our friend Vanessa Van Edwards over at The Science of People has a great article on the benefits of using hand gestures: www.scienceofpeople.com/2015/08/20-hand-gestures-using/
Thanks for tuning in Alex,
Kelsey T
well I subschribe right away..
Would have been helpful if you put the links to the videos in the description. The PDF is showing a 404 error now.
"a GUIDE line" for posture 😉😂
Man I do everything he said not to do