Finding Your Personality within the Office Chairs
Chairs for Office always determine the comfortability of one’s personality which shows off one’s attitude based on which people usually do quite a lot of damage. Thus, your Chairs for Office should be highly comfortable which should showcase only one’s confident personality. Chairs for Office do come under various categories, shapes and sizes.
Mistake #1: Fiddling
This is quite damaging. Not only does it undermine your authority and presence, it can seriously annoy the interviewer. Here are the culprits that I have come across:
- Clicking the pen
- Flicking the tie
- Twisting the ring or bracelet
- Tugging the coat jacket lapels
- Twirling the strand of hair or (even worse) the beard
What to do instead?
Sit with your arms calmly placed in your lap or on the arms of the chair. This allows you to gesticulate naturally as you deliver your evidence-based answers. (As an aside, I almost always find a direct correlation between fake, stilted language and failure to use the hands. I have concluded that it comes about because there is no emotional element in the language so your body has no natural inclination to get involved.)
Mistake #2: Poor Posture
Long gone are those Victorian times when we were all taught to sit up straight. Posture is something that you’ve possibly never thought of. Here are the common culprits:
- Leaning back in the chair with hands crossed behind your head. This is a glaring error and makes you look quite arrogant
- Another variation is when you slide down slightly in the chair and lean away from the listener. This sends a message that you’d rather be elsewhere and that you don’t want to connect with the other person
- Not quite so bad is leaning sideways. One variation is leaning on the boardroom table. The problem here is that this leaves you only one hand to gesture with and you often end up looking like a ventriloquist’s puppet
- Then there’s the slump. Here you may well be sitting back in the chair, but there is a bend at the waist usually accompanied by rounded shoulders. This makes you look defeated and lacking in authority
- And finally the knees. Very rare, but worth a mention. Crossing one knee over the other leg so that the crossed knee forms an outward triangle is so relaxed that it can be perceived as disrespectful, at least in most office settings
What to do instead?
Place your bottom firmly at the back of the chair, put your shoulders back (though not like a sergeant major) and lean forward slightly.
Mistake #3: Protected Torso
Crossing your arms over your body can be an automatic action if you are feeling uncomfortable. There are 2 variations here:
- Folding your arms sends a range of different messages but they are all negative
- A lesser culprit here is when you have one arm defensively crossed over your torso and the other arm cradling / shielding your face. This makes you look uncertain and insecure
What to do instead?
As mentioned earlier, sit with your arms calmly placed in your lap or on the arms of the chair ready for you to use them.
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