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For boudoir work, I generally engage them in conversation and suddenly they realize they're a lot better at posing than they thought they were. But that's over the course of an hour or more, I couldn't imagine trying to get 5 headshots right with that alone.
Similar to how I do portraits -- though more as a hobby and not professionally so limited experience. If you just point a camera and have them say cheese, you'll get something artificial that looks forced. If you engage them in playful conversation punctuated by a little guidance, you get much more natural and compelling photos with more confidence without the forced/awkward smiles of someone staring dead-eyed directly into the lens.
Ultimately, it's about making them feel comfortable, and the hard part really is just that there's no one-size-fits all guide for that because like walking up to someone in public and having a conversation with them, some people are more willing to engage and others will be extremely apprehensive and you have to tilt your dynamic differently depending on which kind of person you're working with.
In any case, no formula exists to work with anyone other than to be a good human being as you would with someone on the street and make it as natural as possible rather than cold and calculated.