Unlock your charisma / believing is seeing by Terry McLean

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In this article I am going to link the two talks that I will be giving in the WHAT'S UP! schools in Barcelona and Madrid respectively on the 16th and 23rd October 2014. They are both in fact two sides of the same idea – achieving brazil phone number list in your communication, mental, physical and emotional . Connection with yourself, what you are thinking, what you say and what you do, and with your audience – whether that be a one to one, face to face interaction with someone you know very well or an audience of 100-10,000 people in a huge auditorium.


Whoever you are, and whatever context you are in, my contention is that it is all about connection. The talks will cover 3 main topics, which I will introduce in the rest of this article. Charisma, Beliefs and Connection

1) CHARISMA – Born or Learned?

The other day in a Presentation Skills workshop I was running for a large pharmaceutical company, someone asked me “Terry, what is charisma ? Is it born or can it be learned? For a moment I didn't know how to answer them, and then it came to me, out of nowhere, out of my extremely unconscious came the answer I had been looking for and I remember feeling grateful in that moment to the person who was asking the question. The answer I gave still surprises me and still rings true…..” I firmly believe we are all born charismatic and we un-learn it or more precisely we are educated out of our charisma as we grow. We stop being ourselves and lose our identity, in order to become identical and to ”fit in to society”

Charisma comes from the Greek word /Kharisma/ whose meaning among others is “a gift or favor freely given” and carries the idea of ​​service with it too.

My interpretation in the public speaking domain of this definition of Charisma is that the more you give of yourself to the audience (in terms of your voice, body language and content) the more you put yourself at their service, the more charismatic you will become in their eyes, ears and hearts.

For most people however a public speaking context is a pressure situation and they find it difficult to “be themselves” in that context…. They often turn into jelly, or stone according to their personality. With that in mind, on the 16th of October in Barcelona I will share with you some tips on How to be yourself and find your own Charisma again . For that is my definition of Charismatic people…those who dare to be themselves!