BPS Occupational Digest: Charisma involves teachable behaviours

Via Scoop.it – Greek HR

Is charisma innate or can we acquire it? This question has preoccupied scholars of leadership certainly since Max Weber proposed it was a gift «not accessible to everybody» over a century ago. Research suggests charismatic leadership – the use of ideology and emotion to rouse feeling and motivations – involves explicit behaviours, such as body language techniques, showing moral conviction and using metaphor. Is it possible to teach these so-called charismatic leader tactics (CLTs), and does this lead to higher attributions of charisma? There have been promising studies, but to date there hasn’t been a study that investigated mature working adults and used a control group.
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