Influencing with Charisma
Charisma is one of the ingredients that makes the difference between good communicators and outstanding communicators. Here are six tips for consideration…..
- Become An Irresistible Person - Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary defines charisma as "a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure."
- Develop Personal Magnetism - Charisma is also that special quality of magnetism that each person has and that each person uses to a certain degree. You have a special charisma to the people who look up to you, who respect and admire you.
- Project Yourself Positively - In trying to explain charisma, some people speak of an "aura." This aura is a light that is invisible to most people, but not to everyone, and that radiates out from a person and affects the people around that person in a positive or negative way. People pick up a positive attitude from another person – it’s infectious and attractive.
- Control The Impression You Make - The external impression you make is based on your own internal communicative state and state of mind.
- Influence People Around You - If you’re in business, developing greater charisma can help you tremendously in working with your staff, your suppliers, your bankers, your customers and everyone else upon whom you depend for your success. People seem naturally drawn to those who possess charisma. They want to help them and support them. When you have charisma, people will open doors for you and bring you opportunities that otherwise would not have been available to you.
- Exchange Energy Within Your Personal Relationships - In your personal relationships, the quality of charisma can make your life more joyous and happier. People will naturally want to be around you. Members of your family and your friends will be far happier in your company, and you will have a greater influence on them, causing them to feel better about themselves and to do better at the important things in their lives.
Enhancing Your Personal Charisma…
First, identify the people with whom you seem to have a lot of charisma - the people who know you, like you, respect you the most. What is it about your personality that attracts them to you? How could you increase your charisma with these people?
Second, identify the people who have charisma to you, the people you most like and respect and admire. What is there about them that you could model or emulate?
