Nonverbal Techniques 101

Recommended for teachers, administrators and staff who want to learn about nonverbal communication in the classroom.

“I expected to learn some useful, fresh, classroom management strategies — my expectations were met!”

— Workshop Participant

82% of a teacher’s communication is nonverbal. What a teacher does is much more powerful than what a teacher says. Interact with other educators in this high-energy seminar as you role-play through practical skills you can implement immediately.

Learn how to:

• Avoid making the two biggest management mistakes in the classroom
• Identify “at risk” students and which nonverbal techniques work best
• Utilize the top seven nonverbal skills instead of resorting to the use of power
• Create “amnesia” in students after discipline to allow them to get on task faster
• Reduce stress and have more time for teaching
• Increase nonverbal intelligence
• Become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
• Enhance personal effectiveness

Advanced Nonverbal Techniques

Recommended for teachers, administrators and staff who have taken Nonverbal Techniques 101 and are interested in continuing to learn about nonverbal communication.

This training deepens and solidifies the nonverbal skills previously acquired; added refinements help manage difficult students and aids in the continual development of an effective classroom environment.

Learn how to:

• Increase nonverbal signals in the classroom
• “Entice” at-risk students to stay engaged through the use of nonverbals
• Adjust voice volume and walking speed for specific situations
• Manage from across the room
• Go visual with information
• Manage from influence
• Increase nonverbal intelligence
• Become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
• Enhance personal effectiveness

Cats & Dogs — The Art of Relationships

Recommended for teachers, administrators and staff who are interested in understanding themselves and others and creating relationships of influence. Emphasis on creating and/or improving relationships with hard to reach students.

If you call a dog, it comes. If you call a cat, you get its answering machine. It’s the cat students that are hard to deal with! Discover how nonverbal communication helps reach difficult students. Anyone who has ever owned a cat and a dog instinctively knows the differences between their personalities. By using the analogy of household pets, this training examines behavior in terms of cat “traits” and dog “traits” applying intuitive knowledge of animals to people.

Learn how to:

• Identify and understand cat and dog behavior in the classroom
• Label specific behaviors to improve perception and reduce surprise
• Establish and maintain relationships by “teasing” cats and “pleasing” dogs
• Use nonverbals to entice hard to reach students to cooperate
• Take the focus off the misbehaving student and on the class where it belongs
• Use positive reinforcement successfully
• Create a functioning classroom that works together without problems
• Understand student, colleague and supervisor motivation
• Navigate conflict while preserving relationship
• Increase nonverbal intelligence
• Become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
• Enhance personal effectiveness

Don’t Shoot the Messenger!

Recommended for anyone who has to relay negative information. Emphasis will tend toward parent/teacher communication and the unique struggles of those in management positions.

Parent/teacher conferences. Colleague to colleague interactions. Delivering bad news at a staff meeting. One of the most common situations is that of having to deliver news that is other than positive. It is purported that the Romans, on hearing bad news, took their frustrations out on the messenger by killing the person; hence, the phrase, “Don’t kill the messenger.”

Learn how to:

• Convey factual information that is often interpreted as negative without becoming associated in the mind of the listener with the bad news
• Preserve the relationship while delivering the negative message
• Reduce stress and increase influence
• Mediate conflict effectively
• Increase the efficiency of meetings
• Go visual with information
• Use voice patterns systematically
• Understand the idea of permission
• Increase nonverbal intelligence
• Become systematic in the use of nonverbal communication
• Enhance personal effectiveness