Reading people, with Alan Stevens

Can you read people with your eyes? Observing and interpreting every tiny gesture to understand and interact with them better?  Alan Stevens, Creator & Host of the #WeTogether initiative and The Campfire Project is a real pro at it. His expertise is in showing us how we can read people to build successful relationships, negotiations, improve teams and staff loyalty, and close deals faster. Amongst other things, in our conversation he expanded on micro-expressions and how we can benefit from learning to pick up on them and read them accurately.

In this eye-opening interview, Alan:

• Explains how, by reading and responding to people’s personalities and micro-expressions, we can all build better relationships.
• Reveals why he finds working with families most rewarding.
• Shares examples of companies he’s worked with, helping them to improve relationships with clients and their own teams.
• Expands on micro-expressions, describing what they are, how we can detect them, and the benefits we can gain from reading them, as well as listing some online resources where listeners can learn how to pick up on micro-expressions.
• Describes how open questions trigger body expressions that indicate that someone may be lying, adding a few tips on how to be a good poker player!
• Recalls experiences in his past that led him to be interested in body language.
• Shares his hopes and ambitions for the future, for his company and for helping others.