So many benefits to eye contact. It creates a first impression when you engage with someone. Whether it’s a business relationship or something personal, eye contact can help develop a quick rapport that will open doors. Success depends on open doors and eye contact can help turn the key.
Eye Contact is profound and powerful ‘nonverbal’ communication tool. It can shift the dynamics of a meeting, a conversation, and a social interaction. To establish rapport and trust, you will want EYE CONTACT. It’s a biproduct of respect and confidence. When you look someone in the eye, it can and should convey HONESTY and if the connection is made, it will also establish sincerity. Eye contact can enhance an emotional connection. EC can also be used as a tool to intimidate. There is strength, authority, influence, control, and to a degree, supremacy behind eye contact. If managed well and appropriately, EC can easily represent authority. Learn to use EC as an added value component to all you do but be mindful that the dominance of EC should not be abused. Use it – Don’t abuse it, as eye contact can also represent WEAKNESS and something fragile. Business leaders will often leverage this to achieve success.
To communicate effectively, we will always rely on voice, emotion and eye contact. People read our eyes. They can express many things. Our eyes tell stories. Some are sad, funny, happy, miserable, quaint, mad, full of love, pain, and eye contact can enhance a conversation flow. Words supported by eye contact will make an exchange more memorable. Eye Contact is essential for results and outcome. It conveys, something that people can hold. Eye contact shows that you are paying attention and processing delivery and that’s the best way to connect.
