Greenlands Masterclass - Body Language for Leaders NEW

This event is exclusive to members of The Henley Partnership.

To book please contact your HR or Learning and Development team at your organisation.

Unsure who to contact? Please do not hesitate to contact us at thp@henley.ac.uk

As a leader, people will instinctively assess your body language. First impressions are formed and biases can be confirmed (or challenged) long before what you are saying is considered. To show confidence in their communications, good leaders invest time into crafting communication that is meant to showcase their expertise – and therefore, their right to lead. Great leaders know that their content needs to be supplemented with body language that shows confidence, competence and credibility. They know that a failure to do this can lead people to question their content rather than inspire confidence in their communication.

This session will provide you with the body language tools to ‘look’ like a leader that others want to follow. Armed with these tools, and the confidence they inspire, you can ensure your clients, colleagues and peers come to the right conclusions about your credibility as a leader.

Leaders need to be able to communicate effectively in a range of situations, including when communicating in person or remotely, in 1-to-1 meetings, facilitating a conversation, or when presenting. Body Language for Leaders will help you:

• Take charge and confidently set the scene in presentations.
• Enhance your credibility by displaying confident gestures when communicating.
• Maintain focus in meetings by setting visual agendas through gesture.
• Facilitate a positive flow and control of conversations in meetings.
• Build relationships by demonstrating you are listening through body language.
• Engage people when communicating remotely through body language.
• Ensure key messages are understood by effective use of emphasis gestures.
• Demonstrate the strength of your conviction through gesture.

• Leaders with responsibility for influencing their teams, colleagues and customers.
• Leaders who understand that their personal and team success is partially built on their ability to engage, motivate and inspire others.
• Leaders who want to be effective in every environment – presenting, running meetings, etc.
• Leaders who want to know how to use their body language across a range of leadership situations and environments.
• Those who aspire to more senior leadership positions.

Martin Brooks is a Communications Performance Coach and Author of Body Language Decoder. He specialises in helping clients use body language more effectively when communicating.

He has run his communication consultancy since 2002, following a successful career in sales and sales leadership. Martin has advised business executives and entrepreneurs worldwide on how to use body language to engage audiences more effectively in pitches, presentations and public speaking. Alongside training groups, he coaches individuals and helps pitch teams on ‘live’ projects.

Martin also has extensive experience working at top business schools and has been a Course Director at the Chartered Institute of Marketing since 2008. He is frequently asked to analyse business people and politicians by the media and has been featured on BBC radio, LBC radio and appeared on BBC2 during elections. In 2018, Martin provided live analysis on the Discovery Channel of Mark Zuckerberg being questioned by the US Senate.

*Up to 2 places per member organisation. 'Up to' indicates the maximum number per member organisation. All places are subject to availability at the time of booking.