Make sure to avoid the following common body-language errors, if you want to make a good impression on your conversational partner.
Continuous nodding
Nodding at all the right times and places during a conversation can show that you're fully engaged., it'll make you appear that you're hoping to hide the fact that you're hardly—or not even—paying attention. Keep your head straight, your eyes forward, and only nod when appropriate.
Crossing your arms
There's a reason why people don't like it when their conversational partners cross their arms: It makes them appear unwilling to talk. In the animal kingdom, we keep our arms in front of us to protect ourselves from threats..
Unsmiling
We're not saying you should smile as if the person you're speaking with keeps making jokes. However, you should try and keep a smile loaded up whenever needed. Smiles are also infectious., your partner will smile too.
Keeping your eyes on your feet or the ground in front of you when speaking with another person can make you look a bit ashamed of yourself. This is definitely the impression you don't want to make on your listeners, especially in formal settings where you're being judged by everything you say and do, such as at a job interview. So try to keep your eyes focused on the person in front of you.
Being too close
. Depending on where you live, the distance between two people can be as close as two feet or as far as five. Whichever it is, give your conversational partner room to breathe freely. Nobody likes having their personal space invaded, so try and respect his or her wishes by keeping an appropriate distance.
A. Looking downward
B. But if you nod too much
C. Irregular movement of the eyes
D. Keep smiling when the other people are talking
E. But in social life, try to keep our body as open as possible
F. So if you start smiling
G. All cultures are different in terms of proper social conduct
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