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Face-reading - the ultimate discipline of understanding people

Face-reading, or psycho-physiognomy, helps understand people's primal instincts and motivations by analyzing facial features. It can be a valuable tool for leaders in assessing individuals and improving team dynamics, as demonstrated by real-life examples. This unconventional method is explored by Winfried Schröter.

Face-reading - the ultimate discipline of understanding people

Face-Reading - the Ultimate Discipline of Understanding People

What Psycho-Physiognomy Provides Us How would it be if you could look into the soul of your employees at first glance? If you could instantly recognize their innermost needs for recognition and appreciation and easily convey a sense of appreciation to them? Face-reading or psycho-physiognomy is the recognition of primal instincts in people. The intrinsic (absolute inner) motivation, the main driving force of a person, can be read in the face. This inner red thread that one constantly wants to follow is there whether desired or not. For example, there are people who enjoy talking but have been trained by their caregivers to refrain from it. Some absolutely need a stage to present themselves but are in a very low position within the team and have no say. Some people react to a situation by thinking long about their subsequent reaction first, while others act first before they start thinking. Inner conflicts only arise when innermost needs are rejected from the outside or even judged as bad. If you could apply the following technique perfectly, what impact would it have on you as a leader in your everyday work and your team? Be aware that facial expressions and gestures are trainable - just like body language and communication. So what if someone applies to you, who has prepared perfectly and already knows all possible questions in a job interview or assessment center? How certain can you be that this applicant will really meet your requirements? How much time, money, and nerves could you save if you could identify a few facial features to come to a reliable judgment? And these features cannot be trained away. They have been there since birth and can only be changed surgically. Here are a few examples of the numerous facial features for yoursuccess in dealing with people In general, we can say that the size of a sensory organ gives insight into how important its use is to its owner. A large forehead shows us the nature of one's thoughts, a large mouth will reveal that the person enjoys talking and is extroverted, large eyes are a sign of increased visual attention, large ears like to listen, and a large nose perceives olfactory stimuli more intensely than a small nose. Organs and body parts that are larger than others are attributed a special significance. For example, you can imagine that large, strong hands can grip much better than delicate ones with a smaller muscle structure. It is also said that a high forehead represents a "thinker's forehead." This is a rough and highly simplified classification. And each area shows very specific clues about behavior. An example from my everyday life A tax consultant in Schleswig-Holstein asked me about a mental training seminar, if I could be present at his job interviews. He wanted to hire an apprentice again. He had already advertised in trade journals and the daily press, and the application documents were coming in one by one. He had a specific goal in mind and wanted to train a suitable specialist. As I was unable to travel the 900 kilometers from Garmisch to Rendsburg to attend the job interviews, I asked him to send me ten application pictures by email without names or details. He made his preselection based on the certificates and his gut feeling. Women and men of different ages, very different types. Since I roughly knew from conversations what requirements he had for this person, I made my decision based on psychophysiological features. The young man I eventually recommended to him possessed exactly the rationality, creativity, and sense for people paired with a certain perseverance that were desired. The tax consultant was outraged by my recommendation, as he had not even considered this young man. It was only because I asked him to send me ten pictures that he included this one! I advised him to ask this young man a few control questions in the interview tailored to his nature and the apprenticeship position and then form an opinion. After the interviews, he called me and was torn about whether he should really hire this young man or not. Nevertheless, I was convinced and advised my client to take him. After just a few weeks, the tax consultant was very satisfied with his new apprentice and soon even enthusiastic. Today, the former apprentice is also a tax consultant and a partner in the team - and now, of course, my advisor on all tax matters.   Face-Reading is one of the 5 unconventional methods of understanding people by Winfried Schröter. Here is the profile of Winfried Schröter: http://www.trainers-excellence.de/redner/winfried-schroeter.html

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