Demonstrative communication consists of things like nonverbal or unwritten cues like facial expressions, tone of voice, or body language. It can supplement verbal communication in ways, by providing emphasis or seriousness to what is communicated.
When a sales person is well dressed and looks put together while presenting a friendly approach he can be considered trustworthy and reliable. Someone who is disheveled and unclean tends to be considered untrustworthy and unreliable. Demonstrative communication consists of nonverbal actions, thing like a smile, a handshake, eye contact, and most importantly body language. Positive demonstrative communication can be anything that enables the speaker to obtain the audiences trust. When eye contact is made, smiles are given, and the speaker looks put together the audience usually deems the person as trustworthy and a reliable source of information. The speaker’s tone of voice can be a positive and a negative, if you are yelling at your audience you might scare them and they will not listen. It is important to understand tone of voice, body language with eye contact being the most important aspect of demonstrative communication. The audience or listener can usually gage the indicators by the overall perception of the speaker and their image.
Ineffective demonstrative communication can have numerous amounts of negative effect, which ultimately creates misconceptions and misunderstandings in all aspects of communication. Other difficulties include loud aggressive voices, lack of eye contact, and too much body language. When a person speaks with their hands too much, it becomes difficult to focus on the words and becomes about their hand gestures. Body language can really collapse a person’...
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...sing the power of observation it becomes easier to understand what is needed to intrigue the audience.
When we observe the audience or the listen and pay attention to how they react to the words that are spoken, you can begin to understand what the listener cares about. If the listener is looking down and not taking notes chances are they are not listening to the words that are spoken. This can have a negative, ineffective effect on the presentation that is given. When a listener is looking around the room and not at the speaker chances are the speaker has already lost the listener. It is important that we understand that by using our power of observation when speaking to someone we can understand what is needed to keep his or her attention. Listening does not only mean that we use our ear, it means that we use our eyes and ears.
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