16. The Northern Ball: Who Am I?
Concept
The premise here is that who you are affects your ability to influence others. How you stand. How you dress. How you groom. Your speech. The volume of your voice. Your eye contact. Your facial expressions. Your body language. Your posture. The words you choose. Your sense of self-confidence. Your poise. Your polish. Your eccentricity. All of these things and more will affect your ability to get others to respond to you. If you expect others to obey you just because of your title, you are mistaken.
Taken together, these things make up what we call “presence.” Some might call it “charisma.” I don’t like that term, only because it is so ethereal. Presence has components and one can deconstruct them and work ...
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