{"id":390,"date":"2019-09-01T18:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=390"},"modified":"2019-09-01T18:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T22:37:50","slug":"riggio-charisma-response-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/01\/riggio-charisma-response-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Riggio Charisma Response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Before doing this week\u2019s reading I had never given much thought to how I would define charisma. It was definitely a word I used, but not one that I had a definition for. It is something easily identifiable in a person, but much more difficult for me to define in general terms. Social scientists have multiple ways of defining charisma, that ultimately all overlap in one way or another. The traits commonly found in charismatic people did not come as a shock to me. Charismatic people are typically emotionally expressive, enthusiastic, drive, eloquent, visionary, responsive and self-confident. Most of these characteristics have to do with a person\u2019s ability to communicate well with others. Being well spoken around others is just as important\u00a0 Charismatic people draw others to them easily because they know how to communicate well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I found it very interesting that charismatic leadership involves more than just a charismatic leader. The followers\u2019 relationship to the leader as well as situational characteristics are also important. When all three of these aspects interact correctly, charismatic leadership can take place. It is not just about the charismatic leader or the devoted followers, but also the situation this relationship takes place in is what is most conducive to\u00a0 a charismatic leadership situation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Throughout the reading I was wondering if the traits that make somebody charismatic could be trained and this was touched on a little bit towards the end of the article. There has been little research done on the possibility of increasing charisma, but theoretically it appears to be possible because many of the components of charisma could be trained. For example, in a project conducted at the University of California Riverside that focused on improving both verbal and nonverbal communication skills, the participants that went through some training were said to be improved in several traits that help make up charisma. Thinking back to our conversation on Wednesday, this leads me to believe that leaders are often made not born.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before doing this week\u2019s reading I had never given much thought to how I would define charisma. It was definitely a word I used, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2019\/09\/01\/riggio-charisma-response-5\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riggio Charisma Response<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4527,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4527"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}