If you are speaking as a professional business, or you are just involved in public speaking, using the law of attraction will get into the speaking frame of mind and will put you into the position where you will have created the mindset you need to become a successful public speaker. But remember one point here. It doesn’t matter how many leads you have, or how easy leads are provided to you. It doesn’t matter how many people sign up to hear your speech you are about to give. Without the proper mindset to guide your thinking, you won’t be successful and may just flop as a speaker.
This film is pure nostalgia! Great for training in the office as an ice-breaker. It takes us through the basics of effective public speaking, with its focus on body posture and gestures. 
In the pursuit of confident public speaking skills, it is important to accept that nervousness may never be completely eliminated in some public speakers. This is not necessarily bad. A certain amount of nervousness can be positively channeled to enhance performance.
Nevertheless, confident public speaking does involve learning not to betray one's nervousness through obvious body signals
Familiarize yourself with the items in the list below and either check yourself through a video playback of your next presentation or have a close friend or colleague critique your presentation by looking out for these indicators that betray a lack of confidence in public speaking.
http://mitm-la.blogspot.com/2008/07/confident-public-speaking-check-this.html
This is a great video - Energy is certainly a vital presentation technique. I just couldn't help wondering how much more power this presenter would have had, if he had stood still occasionally!
Click on the picture to click through to the video.
This is remarkably true!! “How not to make a PowerPoint”
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For anyone who has done some training with me, you’ll know that I don’t focus on body language when presenting. People can get obsessed by trying to look convincing or slick, and neglect the content of their presentation. They perform
all the textbook hand gestures, and what comes out of their mouths doesn’t match up. A bit like watching 100 chavs pour out of a limo. It just doesn’t seem right.Sometimes however I do give advice on body language for presenting - especially when it detracts from the message.
Here are the 3 biggest body language presentation pitfalls, and what you can do to avoid them:
How do you make your presentation more interesting to your audience?
Perhaps the most important technique is to include them when you speak.
You can choose your words to engage your listeners — or leave them out. If you leave them out, boredom is the probable result.
In this article, I'll give you some specific techniques for crafting your content in a way that grabs the attention of your audience.
More on writing great speeches
Before you open your mouth to say the first word of your speech, you are communicating with the audience. Your stance, facial expression and body language are a picture that paints a thousand words. Make it calm, confident and pleasant, and you start "on the right foot!" So plant both of your feet, stand up straight and smile at them. You'll feel confident, sincere and professional and the audience will know. Then you can play with them.
