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The knowledge of the field, verbal and nonverbal skills create professionalism. That is the case even for economically related jobs. This text focuses on nonverbal communication related to professional communication within the framework of tertiary economically-related education. We describe and analyze the basic insufficiencies in the professional nonverbal behavior of students of economically related disciplines. Professional communication competence can be gained only on the basis of having harmony between verbal and nonverbal component and detecting causes of any disharmony. This can be achieved by using the newest psycholinguistic research.