Unfortunately, I think your charisma is not all dependent on what you do, but on what other people have invested - in themselves, though, not in you.
In a work context for example, it might not be worth someone's while to listen to you when it'd be in *their* interests to listen to your senior (or whoever else is being taken more seriously).
(In our society we're encouraged to have careers, not jobs, and (King Cynicism says) your career is not about doing your job (Lord High Emperor Cynicism says your career is about not doing your job).)
Maire probably has the best range of suggestions for dealing with the problem of getting taken seriously. But it might also be worth finding out what these people have invested in themselves in who they take seriously. What you do with that knowledge, I'm not sure. I'm not any more ahead of you in this subject.
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anonymous
March 18 2008, 07:21:45 UTC
I agree with the others who say take yourself seriously and be confident. It seems like if you take yourself seriously a lot of the rest will follow. Maybe some other things:
don't mumble don't apologise don't hedge
It seems like the people who get taken seriously are usually either people who are good at what they do, or people who are loud or very self-assured or arrogant. The second group of people usually don't get taken very seriously for long, but they can be off-putting if you're trying to rise up to be in that first group.
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In a work context for example, it might not be worth someone's while to listen to you when it'd be in *their* interests to listen to your senior (or whoever else is being taken more seriously).
(In our society we're encouraged to have careers, not jobs, and (King Cynicism says) your career is not about doing your job (Lord High Emperor Cynicism says your career is about not doing your job).)
Maire probably has the best range of suggestions for dealing with the problem of getting taken seriously. But it might also be worth finding out what these people have invested in themselves in who they take seriously. What you do with that knowledge, I'm not sure. I'm not any more ahead of you in this subject.
Andrew.
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don't mumble
don't apologise
don't hedge
It seems like the people who get taken seriously are usually either people who are good at what they do, or people who are loud or very self-assured or arrogant. The second group of people usually don't get taken very seriously for long, but they can be off-putting if you're trying to rise up to be in that first group.
Um dunno if that helps. Hope so! :-)
Katherine
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