What is Charisma? High Social and Emotional Competency
Academic breaks it down into six building blocks in Psychology Today
Feb 16, 2010
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Submitted by: Ginny Deerin
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What is that special something that makes a person charismatic? Think of people like Oprah Winfrey, John F. Kennedy, Gandhi. Ronald Riggio, Ph.D., has studied charisma for three decades and he says they all possess a collection of social and emotional skills that allow them to affect and influence others at a deep emotional level. Head of a leadership center at Claremont McKenna College in California, Riggio writes for Psychology Today about the six building blocks of charisma: emotional expressiveness, emotional sensitivity, emotional control, social expressiveness, social sensitivity, social control.
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WINGS kids show local influences
The key traits of charismatic individuals are directly incorporated into the WINGS curriculum, and as our kids remain involved with WINGS, they express more and more of them. The leaders listed in the article (Oprah Winfrey, John, F, Kennedy, etc.) have welded national and international influence. What’s great about our WINGS kids is they’re able to create a local influence upon their peers. The SEL skills they pick up during WINGS is on display throughout the entire school day and beyond, influencing more and more kids in positive ways.