3 Charisma Exercises to Practise
You got to pump it up!
Hey everyone!
Hope you were able to beat the February blues, I certainly have 😊
This week I was a guest on the The CTO Show podcast and I recorded an episode all about ✨CHARISMA✨ I am looking forward to when it goes live so I can share it with you all. In the meantime, you can watch one of my older podcast episodes below:
This week I wanted to share some of the BEST exercises you can do, to improve your charisma. So it is time to dust off your trainers and get ready to sweat as these exercises level up your skills!
3 Charisma Exercises
1. Record yourself
The very first free charisma exercise is to record yourself talking for at least 1 minute. It may be hard to talk that long, so if it is, pick a subject you are familiar with. Once you have recorded yourself, I want you to do 3 things:
Play your recording but turn the phone away and just listen to your voice and be critical of how you sound. Do you sound confident? Do you say umm or Errr a lot? Do you trail off into nothing? Do you sound boring? Do you sound excited? It’s important to be objective during this charisma exercise.
Play your recording again, but this time turn your volume down and observe your body language. Are you happy? Are you making eye contact? Do you look confident? Are you projecting positivity? Do you look engaged?
Finally, play the recording for the last time, but this time with both the audio and video playing. Try to think of yourself as a different person observing this recording and ask yourself, “How is this person making me feel?” Again, it’s important to be objective.
While it can be uncomfortable talking on camera, it can be an invaluable charisma exercise (which is free!) as it puts you at center stage. On a day-to-day basis, you do not pay attention to your body or voice, so you do not know exactly what you’re doing wrong or what you need to improve on. This exercise helps identify those areas of weakness.
2. One Word Topic
Charismatic people are confident about talking about a range of subjects; they just seem to smoothly move from one topic to another. This can be particularly difficult if you are not confident in conversations and just give one-word answers and find yourself in awkward silence.
Pick from one of the one-word topics below and I want you to talk about that subject for as long as possible:
Shoes
Trees
Ocean
Gym
Food
Sport
Dogs
Books
Jungle
Movie theatre
Chess
Apple products
TED Talks
Trampolines
You can use any of the one-word topics above or pick your own. The charisma exercise challenges you to talk about the subject and look for the different possibilities you can discuss.
3. 20 Questions
This is a great game, but you will need a partner to play. You will probably have played this as a kid, however, the technique you are looking to practice is critical thinking in conversations and asking really good questions.
How to play: Have someone think of something, it can be a person, topic, animal, object, etc. Your job is to ask up to 20 questions to try and figure out what the other person is thinking about. The goal is to guess the thing in less than twenty questions.
This will help you practice how to ask great questions, which is essential when it comes to charisma.
I have more exercises you can read about on my blog you can read the rest of the article by clicking the button below:
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Kind regards
Sebastian