Communicating With Body Language In Business Etiquette

When people get along with each other, body language plays an important role in addition to "language". Sometimes, even if the two sides do not speak, the interaction between the two can make each other understand everything.

The safe distance method is to respect each other's "independent space" before the two sides have spoken.

For example, when a guest enters a store, the clerk lets the guest relax his body first and browse the merchandise at will.

About one or two minutes later, if a guest asks for a voice or raises his eyes to find a shop assistant, the customer will welcome the clerk to his or her "independent space".

For example, colleagues in the office, whether in charge or in rank, have tacit and personal "independent spaces", usually in the middle of their own desks.

When we have something to coordinate or handle, we must stand outside the other side's territory and let him (she) have enough sense of security.

When the supervisor rushing from outside to enter the office, it is best not to discuss things with him immediately. There is something urgent to discuss, and he needs to rest for a few minutes, then knock on his door, and stand in the market one meter from his desk, and ask, "is it convenient for me to discuss something with you?"

In short, only those who have enough sense of security in the "independent space" will be able to open their hearts and be willing to communicate with us.

There are always some department store salesmen who follow us closely as soon as we enter the shop, introduce this, introduce that, give us a great sense of oppression, and make us eager to leave this space.

The result of this backfire is that they do not understand themselves or respect other people's "independent space".

According to Edward Herr, the American cultural anthropologist, only 0.5 persons close to each other close to each other, such as spouses, children, friends, siblings, etc.

Individuals ranging from 0.5 meters to 1.25 meters are individuals. People close to them can be colleagues, classmates, students, friends and so on.

1.25 meters to 3.5 meters for the social field, the region can be customers, neighbors, casual acquaintances.

3.5 meters away from the public sphere, you and him occasionally meet each other, or strangers.