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For your eyes only
Episode 414th October 2022 • Presentation (Skills) Q&A • Carina Ridenius och Martin Lindeskog
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Carina and Martin discuss eye contact. The hand shake is important, but how important are your eyes. Eye contact is a non verbal conversation. And here in the western world, it has huge impact on our social and emotional behaviour. 

Send us questions to: info AT pik DOT nu, or contact us via Carina's site or Martin's Bio.Link page. You could also contact us on LinkedIn (Carina Ridenius and Martin Lindeskog).

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The episode (7 minutes) was recorded at 0900 Central European Time, on October 13, 2022, with Ringr app.. Martin did the editing and post-production with the podcast maker, Alitu. The transcript is generated by Alitu.

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Speaker A:

Welcome to Presentation Skills Q and A. I am Martin Lindeskog.

Speaker A:

Hi, Karina.

Speaker B:

Hi, Martin.

Speaker B:

For your eyes only.

Speaker A:

Well and you don't see my eyes?

Speaker B:

No, I don't but when you're speaking yes, I really can see your eyes

Speaker B:

because if you connect with your voice and your eyes, I can see that you are a bit happy

Speaker B:

that we are going to speak a little bit today it sounds like that great.

Speaker A:

Yeah, I see your eyes also in the way because I have something hanging here on

Speaker A:

the wall like microphones, like a decoration and I got from you as a gift some time ago,

Speaker A:

red microphones, like a decoration do you remember them?

Speaker B:

Yes, I remember so then I think.

Speaker A:

About you and see your smile and so on and you had beautiful singular and where is

Speaker A:

that from? It's a tune, right?

Speaker B:

Yes, soundtrack.

Speaker B:

It's a soundtrack.

Speaker B:

China Eastern soundtrack for your eyes only james Bond.

Speaker A:

James Bond.

Speaker B:

I won't sing the theme james Bond.

Speaker A:

I will not but it's funny with the language we are talking in English speaking in

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English.

Speaker A:

Knowing Swedish sort of yeah and it's funny we

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do a movie titles like in a Deadly Eyesight or you could say an angle it's the translation

Speaker A:

deadly killing Swedish yes.

Speaker A:

And in English it's a bit different.

Speaker B:

In a way and it was some years ago but this is our theme for this episode.

Speaker B:

Shall we say we talked about the handshake last time but how important are your eyes when

Speaker B:

you meet another person? It's important in our culture but it could be

Speaker B:

different how do you feel about this with eye contact?

Speaker A:

Yeah. I have a fear how is it based and so on but I wonder sometimes if you can't

Speaker A:

see why somebody's not looking into your eyes when you're talking.

Speaker A:

Like when you're presenting or greeting but that could be for different reasons you could

Speaker A:

be shy something maybe eyesight it could be something else interesting but I often do a

Speaker A:

notice about that then it's of course when you say when you bow and you shake hands again.

Speaker A:

The multitasking.

Speaker A:

What do you do?

Speaker A:

So maybe at that moment exactly.

Speaker A:

Maybe you don't look so much at the other part

Speaker A:

concentrate on the handshake, I'm thinking Mr.

Speaker A:

Bean there you concentrate.

Speaker B:

On the handshake rather than the eyes.

Speaker A:

Yes, but I tried to see giving.

Speaker B:

Attention also yeah, because I contact you can say it's a nonverbal

Speaker B:

combination between people and some people have problems with the eye contact yeah how do

Speaker B:

you think about that?

Speaker A:

Yeah, as I said, I have this theory that if that would be the case, I'm wondering

Speaker A:

what could the reasons for that? Of course you could ask but you could also ask

Speaker A:

in other ways and see if something coming into that because it's both philosophically and you

Speaker A:

could say also in literature to another where you see somebody's eyes and you could see the

Speaker A:

soul and you see some reflection there.

Speaker A:

But then you have to base it on other things.

Speaker A:

Also in other cultures, other ways you're greeting, you could give hugs, you could

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really look into vice sometimes maybe you have what's the distance when it's getting

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uncomfortable.

Speaker A:

For example, you have it children isn't that

Speaker A:

the children's play be quiet and look into your eyes and see until somebody start

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laughing or something like that.

Speaker A:

There could be all kind of things to think

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about that and then you have in other cultures and countries.

Speaker A:

We have now updated the bio description of the podcast.

Speaker A:

Thank you very much.

Speaker A:

Karina here doing that.

Speaker A:

So for example, I remember when you're greeting with somebody from Asia, then of

Speaker A:

course now in the audience, please tell us how we are doing.

Speaker A:

But then if you have a business card then and see what title is it and how much should you

Speaker A:

bow for that person in Japan, for example?

Speaker B:

Exactly.

Speaker A:

Then it could be hard to watch and look at the same time.

Speaker B:

And it has different how do you say in other cultures it's polite to not have eye

Speaker B:

contact.

Speaker B:

But I think here in our Western world when we

Speaker B:

are talking and connecting this with a handshake, our eyes also gives the expression

Speaker B:

that when you look into the other part that you are honest and have sincere intentions and

Speaker B:

you see the other person.

Speaker B:

And you and I, we want questions from our

Speaker B:

audience in this topic, isn't it so?

Speaker A:

Yeah, that's correct.

Speaker A:

Please reach out to us.

Speaker A:

So where do they send the questions?

Speaker B:

Well, if they connect with us at LinkedIn for example, they can send a message

Speaker B:

there.

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But otherwise we have info at Pik, new info at

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Picnu.

Speaker A:

That's great.

Speaker A:

So until next time I repeat my call to action.

Speaker A:

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Speaker B:

Thank you.

Speaker B:

I think we will come back to this topic.

Speaker A:

Yeah, Google.

Speaker B:

But for now I wish you a pleasant week and hear you next week.

Speaker A:

Yeah, and see you around.

Speaker A:

Cheers.

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