Anything a boss says in a meeting or anywhere else should be considered important. Those who nod continually while their bosses talk are assuring the boss that this is an employee he or she can count on to agree at all times.
To become a skilled nodder takes practice – raising and lowering the head no more than an inch and nodding exactly 70 percent of the time the boss is talking.
“Nodding more than 70 percent could be perceived as sucking up,” says Carla Norris, Senior Behaviorist with the Clanster Institute. “You’ve got to be subtle about it.”
It’s predicted that in the 2020s nodders will be promoted more often than non-nodders as word of their ability reaches that upper tier of managers who require exponentially more assurance the higher they rise.
