As leaders, we routinely assess the health of our organizations and businesses. We consider our economic base, market base, and political base. But, how often is our energy base factored into the equation? If mentioned at all, energy is typically reserved for discussions of meditation and spirituality, as if our souls are left behind when we go to work. Yet, energy is the primary base that charges everything in our lives, whether material or spiritual, personal or professional.
Charisma is highly?charged energy. Authentic leaders tap into it naturally. To its original definition of “a divine favor or gift,” the word, charisma, was given a secular meaning as “a quality of things and persons by virtue of which they are specifically set apart from the ordinary, the everyday, the routine” (Word Histories, 1991, pp. 102?103). A charismatic person is thought to exude an aura of grace and healing to which others are magnetically drawn. As blessed creations, each of us has been—you have been — graced with its gift. Charisma is your innate energy base, but like most of us, you probably have not learned to access it.