By Liz Scheier | May 07, 2021
In workplaces increasingly reliant on digital communication, teams are left wondering how to interpret tone in an email, whether the person on the other end of the Zoom call is impatient or just fast-talking, and what on Earth those emoji mean. Erica Dhawan offers guidance in
PW called a “sharp, timely treatise”
on navigating these pixelated cues.
When did you first get interested in nonverbal communication?
I grew up as a shy introverted girl in a family of Indian immigrants; I struggled with proficiency in English at school and Hindi at home. Struggling between the languages made it necessary to learn to decipher body languages, and I realized how important that was. Then I taught public speaking at Harvard, where I did graduate work. Over time I began teaching corporate leaders and teams, and I realized that there’s a new phenomenon causing so much misunderstanding in the workplace. Well before Covid, we were seeing thes
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You know the old adage, “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it?” This applies to your digital body language as well. But wait; how do you translate voice, intonation, and body language into an email? And what about video? Isn’t video just like being there?
All I can tell you is that … digital body language is a thing.
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Newsrooms see a “better normal” in terms of collaboration on the other side of COVID-19. Leaders from E.W. Scripps, Tegna, Fox Owned Stations and the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism says remote pandemic projects between universities, stations and even different station groups have revealed new efficiencies in communication and technological fluency that will carry forward.
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