Open-Source Charisma: The Workbook
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The gap is not competence. It is charisma.
And charisma, despite what most people assume, is not a personality trait you either have or lack. It is a measurable skill with identifiable components that can be learned, practised, and made your own.
Open-Source Charisma is built around a simple but powerful model: the Charisma Quadrant. It maps every communicator across two dimensions — Confidence and Social Skills — and places them in one of four types. The Incidentally Invisible: talented, prepared, and largely unseen. The Unknowingly Influential: warm and well-liked, but holding back. The Occasionally Overconfident: sharp and capable, but leaving friction behind. The Courteously Charismatic: the person everyone wants in the room.
The model works because it is honest. Most charisma books and training tell you to be more present, more engaging, more likeable. This one shows you exactly where you are, why, and what to do about it — in practical, specific steps drawn from thirty years of working with senior leaders, sales teams, and client-facing professionals.
“Charisma without substance is bright light and noise. But substance without charisma stays unseen. This book is for the person who already has something worth saying, and wants to make sure it lands.”
— Jim Harvey
Sharp and capable. The missing piece is connection. Add empathy and the confidence lands very differently.
Competent and connected. The challenge is keeping it real as the stakes rise.
Talented but overlooked. The gap isn’t ability — it’s visibility.
Warm and well-liked. The only thing underselling you is you.
The result is 125 small, high-impact actions organised around your type — tailored specifically to you. Not a transformation programme. Not a personality overhaul. A map, and the moves that matter most from where you are standing right now.
Find out which type you are. Then read the book.
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