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What aspiring TED Talkers can learn from dog trainers
3 tools to adopt from dog trainers to boost your presentation skills
Renowned dog trainer Zak George uses an approach of love, respect, and fun when training dogs. Wonderful tenets to live by in any aspect of life. Here, I will correlate some of his teachings to acing that presentation.
Body Language
The statistics are out that we (as in we humans) size strangers up in less than two seconds. Think about the last time you walked down a busy street. What ran through your head as you passed others? Woman, man, child, guy with axe — lumberjack, mass murderer? There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s just how we’re wired. It’s how we organize and make sense of the world. And in less than two seconds, how do we receive and process this information? Yes through our eyeballs, via the visual cortex.
Nonverbal communication- what we see, smell, feel, and taste makes up about 93% of our communication process. When you think about dog to human interaction, the number probably is higher than that.
The body says what we choose not.
Eye contact
One sure way to command attention or command a room is to give eye contact. Zak George says “If I don’t have the…
