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This is a really in-depth topic and we certainly can’t go as deep as I’d like to, but I’d love to give you enough steps, strategies and insights so that you can start to detect when people are lying to you.
If you want to go deeper into this topic I have a self-assessment tool that will allow you to discover just how good YOU are at lie detection. I have also written some articles in which we go all the way down and DO actually turn you into a human lie detector. If you’d like to access either or both of those resources, just click here to send me an email and I’ll shoot them right back.
In this post, we’re just going to touch on the high points but below you’ll also find a link to a radio interview that will provide you with much more information.
So, let’s get started.
We are lied to as many as 200 times a day for all sorts of different reasons.
There are many reasons why people lie and many of them are what we call ‘white lies’. However, irrespective of the reason – a lie is a lie – and we can experience them up to TWO HUNDRED times a day.
To detect those lies and to be able to become a human lie detector, we need to look at three things that give them away:
1. First of all, facial expressions,
2. Then the ‘nonverbal’ —in other words— body language and what our body does.
3. The third thing we look at is statement analysis, what the person is actually saying and how they’re saying it, as well as the way they say it.
To find out more about these three areas (and more!), click on this link to listen in to an interview I did recently with an Adelaide radio station: http://www.bodylanguageaustralia.com/body-language-for-business/lie-detection/
If you have any questions about body language, just ask Diederik in the Comments section below.
On graduation I purchased a Veterinary clinic in Maitland, NSW and sold it in July 2009. At the time of purchase, it was a run down one person clinic with about a 90% mixed and 10% small animal component. The business grew well, so that at one stage there were 4 branches and 8 Veterinarians. At the time of sale there were 5 Veterinarians, 16 support staff functioning out of a purpose built ‘A’ class Hospital with one branch. In 2004 the practice won the Pfizer/AVA Practice of Excellence Award as well as coming 3rd in the Fujitsu Customer Service Awards. At this stage (and even slightly before), I started co-presenting at trainings and workshops and in 2007 I started developing and hosting my own workshops. In July 2009 I sold my practice so as to be able to concentrate fully on my coaching, training, speaking and workshop business – and to be able to move to Exeter (NSW) to be with my partner. I missed clinical practice, so in May 2018 I purchased a veterinary practice with the aim of building it up by providing a highly customer service friendly veterinary practice alternative to the local community. In 12m...
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