Never underestimate the power of your smile.
It can dramatically impact how you're perceived, and it can have an effect on how your message is received.
The last part of that well known saying, "...frown and you frown alone" is also quite true, for we are drawn to people who smile. That means your subordinates, the audience to whom you're about to deliver your presentation, your business partners - they'll all be more receptive to what you have to say, and perceive you in a more favorable light, if you recognize the power of your smile and use it appropriately.
Smiling makes you appear more confident and more successful. It also helps you to maintain a positive attitude. It sets the tone for what's to follow.
You should smile when you enter a room, or take the podium to speak, or when a person comes into your office.
Particularly if you have difficult news to deliver, opening the conversation with a smile will go a long way toward making what might be a bitter pill go down a little more easily.
When times are tough, the ability to smile forges a bond with your team and projects a sense of encouragement.
Columnist George Will, in describing FDR, said this: "Radiating an infectious zest, he did the most important thing a President can do: he gave the nation a hopeful, and hence creative, stance toward the future." However you feel about Roosevelt and his policies, the concept of a leader projecting a certain ebullience and optimism - even during the darkest of times - is one that you can adapt to your own circumstances.
Understand the impact you can have on people with something as seemingly simple as a smile.
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