How to Be More Charismatic: 5 Tips Backed by Research

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By Eric Barker
Barker is the author of Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Some insights about how to be more charismatic from research, with links to the studies:

  • Assume everyone already likes you and they probably will.

  • When you speak in public, use imagery.

  • In general, limit your time at the computer. It can degrade social skills.

  • Guys, consider growing a beard.

  • A course that was successful in making managers more charismatic focused on these techniques:

    • -Framing through metaphor-stories and anecdotes
    -Demonstrating moral conviction
    -Sharing the sentiments of the collective
    -Setting high expectations
    -Communicating confidence
    -Using rhetorical devices such as contrasts, lists, and rhetorical questions together with non-verbal tactics such as body gesture, facial expression, and animated voice tone.

    For more tips on how to get people to like you (from an FBI behavior expert) click here.

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    This piece originally appeared on Barking Up the Wrong Tree.

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