I attended an interesting workshop today at Embrace Baltimore with Margaret Slusher of Lead. The workshop focused mainly on non-verbal communication and I want to share this one interesting tidbit which I found fun and interesting.
When asked a question:
1. If the person looks to his upper right he is visually constructing his answer (making it up).
2. If he looks to his upper left he is visually remembering an answer.
3. If he looks directly to the right he is auditorially constucting or making up and answer.
4. If he looks directly to the left his his remembering the answer in an auditory fashion.
5. If he looks down and to the right he is thinking of the answer kinesthetically.
6. If he looks down and to the left he is having a conversation with himself.
(All of these are for right-handed individuals. Reverse all directions if the person is left-handed. Be confused if they’re ambidextrous.)
2 Comments
June 18, 2009 at 7:34 pm
The different inferences with regard to non-verbal communication look interesting. I and a friend of mine are writing up a research paper on non-verbal communication, would love to discuss more aspects of this kind of communication specially how it affects employer-employee relations. Please write to me if you have any first-hand information on such experiences.
Thanks.
June 23, 2009 at 12:17 am
Sarbani, I’d encourage you to follow the “Lead” link I gave in the post and contact Margaret Slusher. She is brilliant in this discussion as I have not even scratched the surface of her non-verbal communication content.