This article was awesome!!!!: People typically adopt one of three stances, according to Morgan. Were either slightly hunched over (this is becoming more common thanks to all the time we spend looking at screens), in a pelvic posture, with hips trust forward like someone wearing high heels, or in what he terms the heart posture. The first comes across as reluctant and defensive, the second as flirtatious. The third, however, conveys trust and makes people comfortable. To achieve it, call to mind your gran (or your drill sergeant) and keep your shoulders back, your stomach in, and your head held high when you walk into a room. 2. Conquer distractions for greater charisma. We usually think of charisma as a way you look or something you do--a trick of body language or behavior. But the truth, according to Morgan, is that much of charisma is in your mind. Its about your feelings and your focus. Charisma is something very simple--emotional focus, he explains. Enter a meeting with your mind abuzz with millions of tasks and worries, and youll leak that distraction to the others in the room, which isnt ideal if youre aiming to fire up the troops. Your unease becomes their unease without your having to do or say a thing. Conquering your cluttered mind takes practice and technique, which Morgan says leaders can steal from method actors. Before you walk into a key encounter, decide which emotion you want to project and remember a time when you felt that emotion naturally. Take a few minutes to put yourself into that memory with all your senses, and instead of leaking distraction, youll leak your target feeling. This is what makes heads swivel, Morgan insists. 3. Tune in to others unconscious messages. The good news when it comes to reading others cues is that our unconscious minds are already really good at doing it. The bad news? Most of us struggle to tune in to what we know on that level. This is simply a matter of tapping into that unconscious expertise, Morgan says. He notes that he goes into how to get in touch with your intuition in great detail in his book, but also explains the essential initial step to improving your ability to read others: Consciously ask key questions (Will my boss give me this raise? Who here is on my side?) of your unconscious mind, and then listen closely to what your gut is telling you. 4. Find your perfect pitch for leadership. For a long time scientists thought the undertones in a persons voice served just as a marker, a vocal fingerprint of sorts that allowed others to distinguish between speakers. But then, Morgan reports, research turned up something extraordinary. We unconsciously elect a leader within five, 10 minutes and we do so by lining up those undertones with everybody in the room, he says. Leadership, in other words, is worked out unconsciously and quickly via the medium of the tones in which we speak. Its possible to use this truth to your advantage, Morgan claims, simply by finding the pitch at which your voice is naturally strongest and most resonant--the place where you maximize those undertones (he calls this high-power, radio-friendly voice the Ronald Reagan voice). This generally means overcoming suboptimal vocal habits we develop in childhood--men generally learn to push their voices too low, women make theirs too high.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 01:38:36 +0000
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