Joel Weldon coaches Cameron Herold on 10-minute presentations. He warns against handing out materials mid-talk, praises vivid analogies like Sound of Music and croquet, and says pacing and voice modulation matter more than you think in short formats.
I hate 10 minute formats. These are the hard. By the way, as a speaker who's spoken in 26 countries on five continents, this is one of the hardest formats to ever do.
You don't get a can. Okay. Because when you do this 10 times for the same speaker, you don't need another can. And this is the tenth time that I've heard you speak. Third time I've heard you give a similar presentation to this. I told you how good Alex was. Is he an amazing speaker? Yeah. If this was back in the biblical times, Joe, we were talking about the Bible and your mom being a nun. If Jesus wasn't the head guy in those days, it might have been Cameron sitting on a hilltop and people would come up and ask for his wisdom. I mean he is so brilliant and his use of stories and illustrations and analogies is so great. So I'm going to tell you some more good things he did. I'm going to give you the two suggestions. First, Alex, you're a very bright guy. I saw your post on Facebook. You're a tentative at 1 minute and 47 seconds. He was still looking through the handout. Is the handout relevant to this message for the involvement of those 10 minutes? Not at all suggested for you. Don't ever give your material out until you need it or you're finished. Because a number of you and because you were right in front, I. I'm not picking on you. But he was distracted by it. Yeah. So I have a handout for you that gives you two examples. And just think there's your. Then you make the point with that. So that's suggestion number one. The very first question you asked this group. So that's almost everybody. What if we change that? By the way, by a show of hands, how many do not have vision or a mission statement? Let me see your hands. One, two, three. Well, congratulations because what I'm going to talk about is vision and mission statements don't work. So what you did is you got us all to commit and told us we were stupid.
Took it away from me.
So one way to think is how do you keep audience on your side? By making. I'm not just stroking them and giving them phony stuff. But the point you're making is this is wrong. We can still make the same point by identifying the four people who didn't do it. And for those of you that haven't, that's okay because I have a solution for you. Your. Your relevancy. And I've seen how you do this with sound of Music. And it always amazes me. There's somebody so young in the group. They haven't seen Sound of Music or Ger.
Germans have never seen it either. It's weird.
Okay, so, Jason, you did a great job of setting this up. And the other thing that was. Wasn't that an impacting analogy to make the point? It was such a clear example. And the brilliance of Cameron is he went right back to it at the end and used croquet. So remember I said earlier, showing your present to the audience because he didn't know that croquet would have been in the answer. That was a spontaneous thing. He remembered it, he was present, and he came back to it eight minutes later. That adds great credibility. And the other thing you did, which I haven't seen you do before, is you really softened your voice and you got a little slower, and that really made an impact. So think when you have the fast paced delivery to just occasionally slow it down.
I've had to really that just so everyone hears. I've had to really work on catching myself getting manic. And when I can catch myself, then I can grab the emotional intelligence to come down. But that's been a learned skill. I'm glad you saw it because I'm working on that one.
Well, you've done a great job. Let's give him another hand. For another great 10th time, I bow before you.
