Coaching practices for Power Posing Revisited with Friends

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  • When I walk into a room with people who outrank me I seem to shrink
  • I keep waiting to feel confident before I’ll raise my hand or go for the thing, and the confidence never just shows up
  • Right before something nerve-wracking I want a quick body-based way to feel a notch more sure of myself
  • I keep seeing people swear that standing like a superhero for two minutes will spike my hormones and make me fearless, and I want to know what part of that is actually real before I pin my big moment on it.
  • One-on-one keeps falling apart the second the other person gets busy

Practices that may help

  1. Power Posing Revisited
    Amy Cuddy’s original 2010 claim — that two minutes of expansive posture changes hormone levels and risk-taking — failed to replicate reliably, and even one of the original co-authors distanced herself from the hormonal mechanism. The more modest finding — that posture affects subjective confidence and behavior — has held up better, though the effect sizes are small. The honest take: posture matters, the original claims were overreached, and the useful practices are simpler and more defensible than the original study suggested.
  2. Convey power
    Signal that you have the ability to affect the world — competence, status, or capability.
    The Charisma Myth, Made Practical
  3. Understand the "become it" claim accurately
    Sustained behavioral practice of confidence — acting as if — can build real self-efficacy over time, through mastery experiences rather than pose duration.
    Power Posing Revisited
  4. Adopt expansive posture to shift subjective confidence
    Upright, open posture — not a "power pose" — reliably correlates with higher self-reported confidence, even if the hormone claims did not hold.
    Power Posing Revisited
  5. Skip the hormonal "power pose" promises
    Use posture for felt confidence, but don’t believe it’s changing your hormones.
    Posture and Confidence, Honestly Explained
  6. Join a small accountability group
    Report to a small group rather than one person to add redundancy and social proof.
    Accountability Partners
  7. Borrow an identity temporarily by asking "what would [person] do?"
    Temporarily adopting a role model’s identity in a specific context lowers the friction of acting as they would.
    Identity Priming, Made Practical
  8. Use round-robin turns to equalize contribution
    Give everyone a timed, equal turn — it prevents a few voices from dominating and pulls quieter members into the space.
    Osborn’s Brainstorming Rules, Made Practical
  9. Engineer your proximity (peer group)
    “Who you spend time with is who you become” — treat your environment as a force, not a backdrop.
    Tony Robbins’ Core Practices
  10. Lead from the influencing domain — take charge, speak up, make sure others are heard
    People strong in influencing sell the team’s ideas inside and outside the organization.
    Strengths-Based Leadership, Made Practical

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