A presenter's hand movements between belly button and eyes create an "influence zone" that signals authority and guides audience focus. Shifting hands within this band changes who appears in charge, and using gestures here dramatically improves how well people understand what you're saying.
A lot of people will do this when they get up on stage. They're like, "Hi, my name is..." and they don't know what to do with their hands. So we're both here. Who's in charge? Can you even tell which one of us is in charge? You really can't tell anything. Do what you did at the beginning. Go to the influence zone like you did before. Because you read the book. Now who's in charge? One movement. And now watch. Switch. Now who's in charge? And so what's happening is he's moving them into the influence zone. Influence zone is from his belly button all the way to his eyes. So when your hands are in this zone, we're talking, we're expressing, using our hands as PowerPoint, we're drawing photos. They've done communication of saying the same things with no hand gestures and comprehension goes way down.
Yeah, that is crazy. You gotta start using your hands in your content more.
