How to ‘Wow’ Your Audience in Less than 2 Minutes

Who would have thought it possible to ‘wow’ your audience in less than 2 minutes

So much has been written about the skill of speaking and presenting in public.

I’ve written over 100 articles myself in the last year alone.

I’ve written an entire series about the ‘Art and Science of Presenting’, opening, closing, storytelling, anxiety, body language, and probably just about everything you may be able to think about on the subject.

Today it feels almost liberating to write about something you don’t see every day.

How to ‘wow’ your audience in less than 2 minutes

We could probably sum up over 2000 years of wisdom on the subject of speaking in public from the speech of 9 year old actor, Jacob Tremblay.

In our exhaustive efforts to be business like, professional and impress, it’s easy to come across as someone you are not.

Sometimes we just need to remember the 9 year old that’s still inside each of us

Actor Jacob Tremblay took home the Critics’ Choice award for best young actor/actress.

He showed us all in less than 2 minutes how you can win the hearts and minds of your audience in an instant; how to ‘wow’ your audience.

Training courses, books and blogs are fraught with complex models and structures for the perfect speech.

Jacob Tremblay offers what to me seems by far the simplest, yet most powerful

It only contains 3 parts:

A brilliant opening

One which is guaranteed to get your audience’s attention.

“Woah. This is super cool, this is the best day of my life!”

A brilliant middle 

One which makes your message abundantly clear.

As he tiptoes to reach the microphone, with a beaming smile what he says next is even more than endearing:

“I first want to say thank you to all the critics who voted for me, it must have been super hard because of all the great actors in this category.”

A brilliant close

One which keeps it real.

“And I know where to put this. Right on the shelf right beside my Millennium Falcon!”

It seems to me that we often try to make things so complex when it comes to presenting.

It doesn’t have to be that way; there is so much to learn from a 9 year old.

Watch the video here:

If you’d like to learn how to ‘wow’ your audience:

– Book yourself onto a powerful public speaking course.

– Invest in some really good one to one public speaking coaching.

– Get yourself some excellent presentation training

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