Anthony Fasano here from the Engineering
Management Institute and in this
Engineering Manager 8020 Shorts video I
want to cover the topic of body language
in your conversations as an engineering
manager you will undoubtedly be engaging
more with people engaging with your
team's engaging with other consultants
engaging with clients and you need to be
aware of your body language so what I
mean by that is talking and speaking is
only one part of a conversation
listening is another part of the
conversation but how you carry your body
is another part so a couple of quick
tips here eye contact is very important
especially in today's world of
distractions try to maintain eye contact
in conversations with people because
that shows them that you're engaged and
it shows them that you're really
listening to them and without that the
quality of your conversation can
decrease tremendously if you're staring
at your phone if you're looking into
space you're not making that eye contact
the other thing is your posture stand up
straight and tall that again shows
people that you're confident shows
people that you're engaged if you're
slouched if you're staring down if
you're looking away again you're losing
that connection and that's something
that is you know really really important
and the other body language kind of
strategy that you can think about using
is gestures you can point to something
you can use your hands to describe a
project that engages people as opposed
to just standing there and talking with
them animation right we're engineers we
build things we design things so show
them that in your conversations so I
hope those tips are important I just
want you to be aware that as an
engineering manager you need to engage
with people the more engagement you can
get with people better results you're
gonna get on your projects and in your
career
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