The Nonverbal Communication IQ Matrix explores how to recognize the intricacies and impact of our nonverbal language. When we interact with others, we typically pay attention to the words someone speaks. This helps us gather an understanding of the message they are trying to convey. However, by only attending to verbal cues, we miss a large portion of the message that people often communicate non-verbally.
For instance, facial expressions, mannerisms, hand gestures, eye patterns, and body language help support the words a person uses to convey their message. Understanding how to recognize these nonverbal cues will help you dig below the surface communication level of words and delve deeper into a person’s hidden thoughts, feelings, motives, and intentions. This map breaks down a four-step process you can use to better recognize the subtleties of nonverbal communication.
Here is a quick breakdown of each branch of the Nonverbal Communication mind map.
- Nonverbal Cues: The first two branches of this map explore the intricacies of nonverbal communication. Nonverbal communication is a subtle form of communication that manifests from an unconscious level of awareness. It typically seeps through our face, body, and hand gestures. Nonverbal cues can either be congruent with what a person is saying, or it can contradict their verbal language. The resulting observation determines whether a person is being genuine, forthright, and honest. Possibly their nonverbal communication might reveal that they are not being as upfront as their verbal communication might suggest.
- Nonverbal Recognition: The final two branches of this map break down a four-step process you can use to better recognize the subtleties of nonverbal communication. Specifically, the map challenges you to look out for patterns within body language, facial expressions, vocal tendencies, physical touch, eye movements, and any inconsistencies between the verbal and nonverbal language that a person uses. These inconsistencies can provide you with interesting insights into a person’s underlying thoughts, feelings, motives, and intentions.
This map provides a roadmap and framework for understanding and recognizing nonverbal communication. Referencing it regularly and committing it to memory will help you to embed these concepts and ideas into your subconscious mind.
A mind map, of course, does this beautifully because it mirrors the synaptic connections made in your brain as you try to establish new habits of thought and behavior. It brings together key concepts and ideas that help your brain to fully integrate and process this information. The brain, subsequently, rewires itself as it attempts to establish new habits of mind. It’s an ideal tool for creating lasting change and transformation.
Stick with these principles, memorize and incorporate them into your interactions with others and you will progressively develop a higher level of awareness of people’s nonverbal language. This will help you to quickly pick up on the subtleties of human behavior, which will provide you with insights into people’s hidden thoughts, feelings, motives, and intentions.
When you purchase the Nonverbal Communication IQ Matrix you will receive:
- A PDF copy of the IQ Matrix, which you can use for printing in high resolution.
- A JPG image file of the IQ Matrix, which is ideal for viewing on tablets and mobile devices.
- A Desktop Background version of the map you can use for reference on your computer.
- A MindManager file for those who wish to edit the content of the IQ Matrix.
Additional visual resources and variations of this IQ Matrix might be added to your account page at no extra cost in the future.
