Referent Power: The Ultimate Form of Influence
Questions of leadership are intimately linked with questions of power, and charisma is one way of talking about power. Along with the needs for belonging and recognition, human beings need some sense of power—the capacity to affect one’s world.
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impacting behaviors. To borrow the framework and language of Olivia Fox, author of The Charisma Myth,[17] coming across as “charismatic” is the result of projecting three qualities: Power (authority, credibility) Warmth (friendliness, openness) Presence (the audience feels like you are undistracted and paying full attention to them)
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"The greatest predictor of success for leaders is not their charisma, influence, or power. It is not personality, attractiveness, or innovative genius," the pair write. Instead it's a quality called "relational energy." Having it can help your company be up to four times more successful.
Yale Research: Having This 1 Trait Makes Leaders 4X More Effective
The other way to achieve it is to speak to people’s needs and aspirations and teach them how to achieve these things together as a group. That is done through the power of a vision, force of personality, the ability to articulate shared ideals in a language with which people can identify, and the capacity to “raise up many disciples” who will conti
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