End of week 3: Nonverbal Communication In The Organization.

MAYBE SOMETIMES WORDS JUST AIN'T ENOUGH:


Say what? Who’s saying things? Who’s saying nothing? Who’s saying something by doing nothing? Man, I’m confused, or am I?

Non-verbal communication, what’s the first thing that comes to mind when you see this sentence? That we can’t talk? That we don’t need to talk? That people shows signs of content to express how they feel, like using the middle finger and whatnot? :O

Well readers, non-verbal communication is all about pressing the MUTE button on life, making sure that all expressions are expressed not through our voice and not from the mouth :]

Non-verbal communication then includes facial expressions, eye contact, and the tone of voice, body posture as well as motions, and also positioning within groups. It may also include the way we wear our clothes or the even the deafening silence we keep.

The most common ways of non-verbal communication would be through the usage of Facial Expressions:

How do we giveaway a facial expression and still portray a meaning? Well, what I can tell you is, a smile, frown, raised eyebrow, yawn, and even a sneer all convey information, I’m not even kidding, people do it for a reason, and that is either because they can’t talk or too lazy to talk or to be sarcastic or even give the silent treatment but with HINTS. Facial expressions constantly changes during interaction and are always monitored and observed relentlessly by the recipient or other people who’s observing. There is evidence that the meaning of these expressions may be similar across cultures, then again different cultures bring different meanings to their facial expression. So what do we do? We DEAL with it! Seeing there is nothing better we can do anyway.

People at work/college/school are always giving away non-verbal communication, why that happens we’ll never know why, WHY WE THINK THAT HAPPENS, well I guess we can always assume the fact that people are all lazy. We don’t like talking, even when we do, we still give out non-verbal expressions to make a conversation even more interesting. Then again, people are always creative with their non-verbal expressions; they think it makes them mysterious and sexy to not say anything, but to show signs of communication through other expressions. Interesting topic indeed, as much as a stare is just a stare, a stare now means something else, it can mean that you’re rude or a creep, then again, it can also mean that you admire the things surrounding you, for example, I normally stare at my crush, and when she asked me why I’m starring at her, I’ll just say “I’d admiring BEAUTY”.. HOHOHO… lolz.

People also use Non-verbal communication to be different.. For example random groups come up with their own personal handshakes or even ways of communication through different expressions. In addition, people tend to use non-verbal communication to curse or to express signs of discontent. As weird as the world may look and be, non-verbal communication is considered an art :] Just check out mimes, people who do mimes and people who dance, :] it’s all about the BODY LANGUAGE!


Story time:

Someone once asked me, “How many languages do you know?”
You know what I told that person? I said THREE! “I know English, Bahasa Melayu and BODY! BODY LANGUAGE!”… haha :D