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Communicating with confidence is very important. If you want to communicate clearly you need to pay attention to your voice, gestures, facial expressions and posture, as well as being aware of other people’s personal space. Albert Mehrabian’s in his book Silent Messages, identified the following statistics for the way we communicate 7% by words, 38% tonality of voice, 55% body language.
Updated: 22 October 2008