It was 2021, and the intensity of the COVID-19 pandemic was just beginning to subside. I was young, ambitious, and incredibly impressionable, but also focused, curious, and filled with happiness—the ...

Love it or hate it, the modern workplace is now a global one. We communicate through screens, speak different languages, and have different cultural upbringings. Thankfully, a big part of effective ...

Despite rapid advancements in the science of assessments and a booming market for recruitment technologies, it is still virtually impossible for anyone to get a job without first going through a ...

Popular depictions of body language often focus on the ability to decode lying, scan someone to detect defensiveness, or uncover other such negative behavior. The idea is that people may say one thing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Carol Kinsey Goman is a contributor on body language and presence. Dec 30, 2024, 07:59pm EST When we’re meeting face-to-face, a ...

As a leader, what you say is important, but it’s not the only message you’re sending. The impact of your communication is also strongly influenced by a subtle but powerful set of nonverbal cues, All ...

Body language is one of the most powerful tools we use to connect, but it's also one of the most misunderstood. Over the years, a handful of popular ideas have become "rules" — even though science ...

Are some people better at nonverbal communication than others? I have spent the last 45 years studying this very topic: individual differences in people’s abilities to communicate through nonverbal ...

We can understand so much about what people are communicating by simply paying attention to their physical cues. Let’s say that you’re walking down the street and pass a guy who raises his arm in the ...

When the pandemic first sent office workers home in 2020, Slack says there was a major spike in the use of the heart emoji on its site. Struggling amid the rising tide of infections and deaths, ...