Do you want to use confident body language in the workplace? Perhaps you want to look more confident during business meetings. Or maybe you want to learn how to project confidence in difficult or stressful situations.
Body language is incredibly important to project confidence as a new leader in the workplace.
Studies have shown that by making slight changes to your body language and by using high-power poses, you can increase your level of confidence and feel more powerful as a leader.
In this episode, I talk about specific body language gestures you can use in the workplace to look and feel more confident as a new leader.
I talk about confident body language when sitting during business meetings, when standing at networking events or during presentations.
Listen to this episode for confident body language in the workplace.
You will learn:
In Episode 16, “How Can I Project More Confidence in the Workplace?”, you will learn:
- Strategies for confident body language when standing.
- How to use confident body language when sitting during meetings
- Two easy gestures to combat the low-power position that sitting naturally puts you in.
- What is the Wonder Woman pose and how to do it.
- Why keeping your head high is important to project confidence.
- What taking up space with objects around you is all about.
Click here to listen to Episode 016.
Learn more about confident body language in the workplace.
Resources mentioned:
- Episode 15, The Science of Confident Body Language and Leadership.
- High Power Pose examples. Power Posing: Brief Nonverbal Displays Affect Neuroendocrine Levels and Risk Tolerance, Dana R. Carney, Amy J.C Cuddy, Andy J. Yap, 2010.
- TED Talk, Amy Cuddy, Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are.
- Powerful, Confident Body Language (Executive Impressions’ blog post).
- Powerful, Confident Body Language for Women (video course). This online video course will help you learn body language gestures so you can appear more confident and visible in the workplace.


Learn more about confident body language in the workplace in my online course.
Learn all you need to know about powerful, confident body language in my online course, “Powerful, Confident Body Language for Women”. This course is designed for women, however I’ve had a lot of men take this course and benefit from it too. Click the image to find out more.

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