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How To Be Charismatic

A communications coach offers a quick lesson in the brain science behind charisma.

Posted by: Meridith Levinson in Best Practices Topic: Personal Management Blog: Career Connection Current Rating: Comments: 5

Can a stuffy manager learn to be charismatic? You bet. While many people believe charisma is an innate quality (you either have it or you don't), communications expert and coach Dr. Nick Morgan maintains that anyone can learn to be charismatic.

Charisma, Morgan explained during a recent Reach Branding Club teleseminar, is the focused expression of emotion. So long as managers can learn to focus their emotions, they can learn to be charismatic. (Check out Morgan's thoughts on leadership, communication and authenticity.)

"When we find a speaker charismatic, it's because the speaker has a powerful emotion connected with the material he or she is talking about," Morgan said during the teleseminar. "That's what we respond to."

Morgan noted that the human brain is wired to respond to emotion. It's what makes us social beings. He explained that the sole purpose of certain neurons in our brains (called mirror neurons) is to mimic the emotions of others in our own minds so that when we see someone experiencing sadness, for example, we feel blue, too. 

"When a speaker is charismatic, they express an emotion in their unconscious brain, and our mirror neurons respond to it," said Morgan. "That's where charisma comes from."

We're not always able to be charismatic in a meeting or at a conference, for example, because we're distracted by other things on our mind, whether they be work, personal problems, chores we need to do, or what we're having for dinner, said Morgan.

"Our unconscious brains express these [conflicting emotions] through our bodies, and everyone picks up on them through their mirror neurons," he said. "They see a distracted person. A charismatic person has figured out how to focus his or her emotions [so he or she doesn't get distracted]."

One trick to appearing-and being-more charismatic lies in the way you carry yourself. When you're walking into a meeting or onto a stage to give a speech, Morgan recommends standing up straight with your shoulders relaxed and slightly back and leading with your heart. He says most people lead with either their head, because they have a lot on their mind, or with their legs. Standing up straight with your heart "open" makes a person look heartfelt, said Morgan, and thus more trustworthy.

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How To Be Charismatic

A communications coach offers a quick lesson in the brain science behind charisma.

Posted by: Meridith Levinson in Best Practices Topic: Personal Management Blog: Career Connection Current Rating: Comments: 5

Can a stuffy manager learn to be charismatic? You bet. While many people believe charisma is an innate quality (you either have it or you don't), communications expert and coach Dr. Nick Morgan maintains that anyone can learn to be charismatic.

Charisma, Morgan explained during a recent Reach Branding Club teleseminar, is the focused expression of emotion. So long as managers can learn to focus their emotions, they can learn to be charismatic. (Check out Morgan's thoughts on leadership, communication and authenticity.)

"When we find a speaker charismatic, it's because the speaker has a powerful emotion connected with the material he or she is talking about," Morgan said during the teleseminar. "That's what we respond to."

Morgan noted that the human brain is wired to respond to emotion. It's what makes us social beings. He explained that the sole purpose of certain neurons in our brains (called mirror neurons) is to mimic the emotions of others in our own minds so that when we see someone experiencing sadness, for example, we feel blue, too. 

"When a speaker is charismatic, they express an emotion in their unconscious brain, and our mirror neurons respond to it," said Morgan. "That's where charisma comes from."

We're not always able to be charismatic in a meeting or at a conference, for example, because we're distracted by other things on our mind, whether they be work, personal problems, chores we need to do, or what we're having for dinner, said Morgan.

"Our unconscious brains express these [conflicting emotions] through our bodies, and everyone picks up on them through their mirror neurons," he said. "They see a distracted person. A charismatic person has figured out how to focus his or her emotions [so he or she doesn't get distracted]."

One trick to appearing-and being-more charismatic lies in the way you carry yourself. When you're walking into a meeting or onto a stage to give a speech, Morgan recommends standing up straight with your shoulders relaxed and slightly back and leading with your heart. He says most people lead with either their head, because they have a lot on their mind, or with their legs. Standing up straight with your heart "open" makes a person look heartfelt, said Morgan, and thus more trustworthy.

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Thomas Ieracitano
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E-mail Etiquette: 8 Tips to Avoid Communication Blunders

E-mail Etiquette: 8 Tips to Avoid Communication Blunders

Before you dash off another sloppy e-mail, remember:
Your e-mail speaks volumes about your communication skills and you as a person.
Consider these eight guidelines for effective e-mail writing, shared by an e-mail etiquette expert.

CIO - Think e-mail writers have become more effective and polite in the last decade?
Maureen Bertolo begs to differ. Not only do the dreaded "reply all" and SHOUT e-mail blunders persist,
but also, Twitter and texting are making e-mail manners worse, says Bertolo, who began her career as a computer programmer and has been teaching e-mail etiquette classes for 10 years.
Unfortunately, she says, people express the same questions and complaints about e-mail in the seminars she teaches today on behalf of her employer, CAI Inc., that they had a decade ago.
Chief among those complaints: "E-mails are too long!" and "Why do I get so many of them?!"
The persistent problem with e-mail, according to Bertolo: people over-rely on it and
use it to accomplish tasks for which it's completely ineffective, such as to explain complex procedures, solve complicated problems and air grievances. E-mail has become such an integral and easy part of the way people work and communicate that they take it for granted and neglect to think about more effective alternatives for communicating. They also want documentation to cover themselves, says Bertolo.

Now, she adds, texting and Twitter are dumbing down e-mail even more. "Texting is starting to override e-mail because it's easier," says Bertolo. "You don't have to worry about spelling, grammar, a salutation. Because texting is faster, people think it doesn't have to be as professional."

In the age of texting and tweeting, some might argue that Bertolo's rules for e-mail etiquette are out of touch with the way people communicate and the needs of global businesses. But Bertolo's standards have the sender's

original posting http://www.cio.com/article/594267/E_mail_Etiquette_8_Tips_to_Avoid_Communication_Blunders

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