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Practicing digital body language

Practicing digital body language

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Practicing digital body language

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- When I say the rules of body language are changing, I mean much more than the increasing acceptance of varying styles, and the push for greater inclusivity and empathy. Those things are incredibly important. But let's talk about the elephant in the room. We just don't see each other as much. Today, roughly 70% of all communication among teams is virtual. We send around 306 billion emails every day, with the average person sending 30 emails daily and fielding 96. The loss of non-verbal body cues is among the most overlooked reasons why employees feel so disengaged from others. Contemporary speech realize more than ever on how we say something, rather than on what we say. That is, our digital body language. When the internet came along, everyone was given a dice and a microphone, but no one was told how to use them. We all just picked things up as we went along. And the mistakes we've made along the way have had real…

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