From the course: Asserting Yourself, an Empowered Choice
Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.
Take up space
- While the words you say are important, your body language can tell a powerful story too. Harvard Professor Amy Cuddy popularized the concept of power posing as a way to increase your confidence and leadership presence. Power posing is all about taking up more space and assuming an open body position to show power and dominance, and they've been around forever in the animal kingdom. Just think of the king cobra flaring its neck or a gorilla pounding its chest to show you're in its territory. Well as it turns out, the same basic principles hold true for humans in the boardroom too. When you take up more space, you're seen as having more power. But the most fascinating part of Cuddy's research uncovered an additional internal boost too. Turns out instead of taking up more space as a result of feeling more powerful, you can reverse engineer your way to feeling more powerful too. When subjects assumed a power pose for…
Download courses and learn on the go
Watch courses on your mobile device without an internet connection. Download courses using your iOS or Android LinkedIn Learning app.