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Presentational Speaking's tutorials will help you understand how a more natural approach to coaching guarantees your success in improving your public speaking.

Using a Wall to Improve Posture -- This technique uses a wall to shape posture by establishing a physical barrier to leaning forward. You can substitute a hanging towel for the wall or wear a ball cap if you feel that you might lean too far forward. The bill of the cap will touch the wall first. Face a wall or towel with your feet parallel about five inches apart and approximately five inches away from the baseboard, or the imaginary baseboard if using a towel. Your feet should be perpendicular to the wall. If you lean forward, you will discover that your face is too close to the wall or towel. If you lean backward, you will notice more distance between you and the wall or towel.

Using a Wall to Improve Gestures -- A wall can also be used to improve gestures. Stand an arm’s length away from the wall. The distance approximates the length of an out-stretched arm at the beginning of a handshake. Emphasizing a phrase with louder volume should result in your fingers almost touching the wall. If they do not, you are either deemphasizing the phrase or mechanically withdrawing your arm inward, precluding natural arm movements. A handshake is a good template for an effective gesture, unless the handshake has been over rehearsed.

MANUSCRIPT LAYOUT - Difficult or foreign words -- You can spell words that are difficult to pronounce by spelling them they way they sound. John F. Kennedy did this for his June 26, 1963 "Ic bin ein Berliner" ("I am a Berliner") speech.

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