How To Be More Charismatic: 5 Tips Backed By Research

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.