How to become more authoritative in one move?Watch your elbows! Put them on the armrests (if there are any), or - comfortably placed on the table. In other words, your elbows should be visible to the interlocutor.
This is because confident and authoritative people do NOT try to hide their hands, as if to say in non-verbal language the phrase "I give up.
If you have your elbows in any way, you will be seen as a negative person.
