For this discussion forum I chose to go to a workplace to make observations of the nonverbal communication between coworkers. I decided to go to a McDonald’s restaurant, sit at a table and order a drink; as I sat I carefully examined the employees working there. I saw many types of nonverbal communication being exchanged back and forth, both negative and positive types.
The first type of nonverbal communication addressed in the text is “voice”. This type doesn’t really have so much to do with the words you speak, so much as it does the emotion in the way you are speaking them. For example, excitement, anger, or sadness in your tone of voice. An important aspect of voice is paralanguage, which describes a wide range of vocal characteristics, each of which helps express an attitude, such as pitch, resonance, range, tempo, articulation, disfluencies, rhythm, pauses, and volume (Adler & Elmhorst, p. 93). While at the restaurant, I observed many examples of voice between the employees and their customers. When speaking to a customer, the worker used softer voices, lower pitch, lower speed, and overall friendly speech mannerisms. This was great, because if you are polite to customers, they will be …show more content…
In general, people who are perceived as more attractive are more successful. Two important factors that can contribute to your attractiveness are physical fitness and clothing. Clothing is particularly important, and it is up to you on whether you need to dress up or down for an occasion. When it comes to a workplace, it is a good idea to dress for the job that you want, err on the side of dressing conservatively, not show too much skin, and not to confuse a casual style with a sloppy one (Adler & Elmhorst, p. 94/95). At my chosen restaurant, all of the employees were dressed properly. They were all wearing their appropriate uniforms, as well as having their hair tied back and away from the
The first type of nonverbal communication addressed in the text is “voice”. This type doesn’t really have so much to do with the words you speak, so much as it does the emotion in the way you are speaking them. For example, excitement, anger, or sadness in your tone of voice. An important aspect of voice is paralanguage, which describes a wide range of vocal characteristics, each of which helps express an attitude, such as pitch, resonance, range, tempo, articulation, disfluencies, rhythm, pauses, and volume (Adler & Elmhorst, p. 93). While at the restaurant, I observed many examples of voice between the employees and their customers. When speaking to a customer, the worker used softer voices, lower pitch, lower speed, and overall friendly speech mannerisms. This was great, because if you are polite to customers, they will be …show more content…
In general, people who are perceived as more attractive are more successful. Two important factors that can contribute to your attractiveness are physical fitness and clothing. Clothing is particularly important, and it is up to you on whether you need to dress up or down for an occasion. When it comes to a workplace, it is a good idea to dress for the job that you want, err on the side of dressing conservatively, not show too much skin, and not to confuse a casual style with a sloppy one (Adler & Elmhorst, p. 94/95). At my chosen restaurant, all of the employees were dressed properly. They were all wearing their appropriate uniforms, as well as having their hair tied back and away from the