Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Wednesday, January 30, 2019

• All staff at 3:30 for Culture presentation in the Media Center
• BELT meeting at 3:45 in the Media Center...all other staff work in their rooms or meet as a team until 4:30

Thinking about...

Albert Mehrabian’s work on verbal and non-verbal communication in the 1960s and early 1970s is still considered a valid model today. He posed that the non-verbal aspects of communication such as tone of voice and non-verbal gestures communicate a great deal more than the words that are spoken. He also found that people are more likely to believe your non-verbal communication than your verbal communication if the two are contradictory. In other words, you are most believable and most effectively communicating when all three elements of face-to-face communication are aligned with each other. Over half of the information we send to others is through non-verbal methods.According to Mehrabian, the tone of voice we use is responsible for about 35-40 percent of the message we are sending. Tone involves the volume you use, the level and type of emotion that you communicate and the emphasis that you place on the words that you choose.

...how tone affects the Brunson culture?