How To Be Charismatic A communications coach offers a quick lesson in the brain science behind charisma. Posted by: Meridith Levinson in Best Practices Topic: Personal Management Blog: Career Connection Current Rating: Comments: 5 Can a stuffy manager learn to be charismatic? You bet. While many people believe charisma is an innate quality (you either have it or you don't), communications expert and coach Dr. Nick Morgan maintains that anyone can learn to be charismatic. Charisma, Morgan explained during a recent Reach Branding Club teleseminar , is the focused expression of emotion. So long as managers can learn to focus their emotions, they can learn to be charismatic. (Check out Morgan's thoughts on leadership, communication and authenticity .) "When we find a speaker charismatic, it's because the speaker has a powerful emotion connected with the material he or she is talking about," Morgan said during the teleseminar. "
