Some of the main points from today's Livestream are:
- should we replace the handshake?
- alternatives for gestures signaling greetings and goodbyes
- what to do if someone doesn't want to shake your hand
- how to non-awkwardly and non-offensively turn down a handshake
- stigma against not shaking someone's hand
- what it means to respect someone's propensity for handshakes or forgoing handshakes
- nonverbal communications across various cultural contexts
- learning nonverbal gestures in different cultures
- 7-38-55 Rule (Mehrabian, 1981)
- the elbow bump / the footshake
- the unwritten social contract that we have to collectively sign as a society
Check the lesson about replacing the handshakes here.
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