It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it. Mark Bowden, a specialist in nonverbal communication, gives a fascinating analysis on Mayoral candidates in Toronto.  These candidates show no love for each other, so Mark Bowden takes off the kid gloves for a no holds barred break-down of their on camera performance.

What does Bowden miss? If you notice anything else, let us know in the comments. See how your skills match up to the expert.

In any sales situation, body language counts for 67% of communication. Maybe that’s why Frank Furness has dedicated a good portion of his comprehensive career to helping people use their nonverbal communication to increase their sales performance.

This video is useful in its simplicity. Especially consider the concept of open and closed/ forward and backward in body language. This is one of the most basic concepts that can easily be applied in almost any setting.

We’d love to hear how you’ve used open or closed body language in a sales setting. If you’ve had an experience with this, tell about it in your comment.

Official Description: “A Personal View of the Human Species by Desmond Morris. This episode focuses on the planet’s most advanced animal, beginning with a look at how man communicated before the evolution of language. Some gestures and expressions are so ingrained that we have not been able to erase them from our vocabulary.”

This is one of the best documentaries out there on body language. Not only does it cover all the popular topics (flirting body language, all sorts of nonverbal communication, tips on reading and interpreting body language, and a whole array of insights on culture and nonverbal communication).

The documentary doesn’t get deep into much of the nitty gritty details of body language and how you can apply it, but it does cover the broad topics and give the very important rooting in cultural and biological evolution that has led to where our nonverbal communication skills have arrived today.

In case you don’t know, Desmond Morris is the acclaimed author of The Naked Ape, a groundbreaking look at human beings from the perspective of a zoologist - analyzing the human race as if we were just another animal, developing specialized behaviors to get things done. Of course, the Human Animal (or Naked Ape) is quite a complicated example of “just another animal,” as anyone who seriously studies just our body language certainly knows.