Importance of Non-Verbal Communication Skills during Effective Presentation

Abstract

Non-verbal means of communication are equally important like verbal skills for effective communication. It is said that the manner one delivers a speech has the ability to capture the audience's interest on the matter of the topic. Non- verbal communication skills have thus great role to play as it is related to the manner of delivering a presentation. Sometimes our body begins to speak before we actually start speaking. It is due to our unconscious use of some non-verbal means that the audience can decode our behavioral patterns. In fact, personality factors such as nervousness, cooperation, frustration, weakness, lack of confidence or over-confidence etc can be better evaluated by decoding the non-verbal means of communication. So it is always advantageous to use proper body language during a presentation as one's personality is an overall culmination of both spoken and behavioral languages. The aim of this paper is to examine how Non-verbal means of communication greatly influence the presentation process and thereby suggesting some measures to avoid negative means of Non-verbal communication