Video Transcript: What Do I Do With My Hands?

Video Transcript: What Do I Do With My Hands?

When I'm coaching people to present a question that I'm always asked is, what do I do with my hands? Alright, well, let me Firstly, start with not what not to do, particularly if you're a guy, don't put your hand in your pocket and do this, you can hear the jingling. Plus, of course, all the ladies are looking at what are you doing with that hands? So that's the No, no, in fact, if you can keep your hands out of your pockets do so. Occasionally, if you've got a presentation you're teaching, you might put one hand in your pocket, but two, never looks good. Your hands actually are the punctuation and emphasis for your presentation. So use them as such, when you're making a point, make a point. As you look at the audience, your left hand represents the future to the audience. So if I'm gonna say at the end of this video, you are going to present much more powerfully, you're gonna have wonderful, significant gestures that I'm going to use this hand. If I'm going to talk about something you don't want to do, I would use this hand because to the audience, this is the past and I'd say, look, what you don't want to be doing is being anxious, worrying, playing with the keys in your pocket. You see how those gestures become natural. 

Maybe you want to talk about building one point upon another, maybe you want to count off your points. All right, maybe you want to talk about a process in time and you can use your your hands to create a semantic reality that that means meaning in the mind, of your audience. One thing about gestures though, is if you do use a gesture, if you do use a powerful, significant gesture, make sure you use the same one. If you repeat the point because that really anchors that concept for the audience. So remember, use your hands constructively. They are the punctuation the emphasis to your presentation.