Hello everyone! If you’ve recently been to a conference, you might’ve noticed that the support packs were rather old. It’s not that we don’t like our cards for commander or that the cards on themselves were not good, but after receiving them for so long, they definetely started to lose their appeal. Currently, Exemplar and […]
An Article: The Backbone of a Great Seminar
Writing, reading and sharing articles is a cornerstone of the international judge program. The very fact you are reading this article is proof. Articles are great. They give projects and individual judges an opportunity to share an idea with a large group of people across the globe. They give the reader a chance to hear […]
Hoboken Judge Conference Report
Location: Hoboken, New Jersey Date: 26 March 2016 Attendance: 147 confirmed attendees plus several walk-ins Presentations: 26 Judge Tests Passed: 8, including one new L2 Location The idea for this conference started about a year ago, when , , and approached me with this idea at the Spring 2015 judge conference. They wanted to host […]
Seminar Feedback
From time to time a presenter at a Judge Conference might not be able to engage us as much as they could. It could be the lack of interaction with the audience, the aesthetics of the slides, the length of the talk or many other things. Why does this happen? In my opinion, it boils […]
The Art of the Mini-Conference
Judge conferences are a great way to meet area judges and learn from your peers in a relaxed, comfortable atmosphere. Perhaps you’ve wanted to host a similar event, but you don’t have a large judge population, or you are remote relative to the concentration of judges in your region. Enter the mini-conference–a scaled-down version of […]
Les secrets du langage corporel : 3ème partie – Soyez le receveur
Bonjour et bienvenue pour la troisième et dernière partie de cette série dédiée au langage corporel. Dans la seconde partie j’ai expliqué comment être un émetteur efficace de communication corporelle afin d’appuyer votre présentation au cours d’un séminaire. Nous allons maintenant apprendre comment interpréter les indices qu’un public nous envoie. . Décoder le langage corporel […]
Les secrets du langage corporel ─ Partie 2 : soyez l’émetteur
Bonjour et bienvenue dans ce deuxième article dédié aux secrets du langage corporel. Précédemment, nous avons vu en quoi le langage corporel était important dans l’objectif de devenir de meilleurs présentateurs. Utiliser le langage corporel au cours d’un séminaire (soyez l’émetteur) Une utilisation appropriée du langage corporel peut être un excellent moyen d’améliorer votre séminaire. […]
Les secrets du langage corporel ─ Partie 1 : son importance
Bonjour. Mon nom est Theo et, à travers une série d’articles sur le langage corporel, nous allons apprendre comment passer de : à ça : La clé, mes amis, est de décrypter le langage corporel. Ce premier article d’une série de trois se concentrera sur comment améliorer notre compréhension des relations humaines en examinant la […]
Eastern European Winter Conference Report
Location: Sinaia, Romania. Date: 5-7 February 2016. Arriving at the hearth of Transylvania was much better then expected. We were warned about bad roads (or no roads at all), but had a completely different experience. Sinaia is a mountain resort known by its Peles Castle, Sinaia monastery and even was a residence for Romanian Royal family. Very […]
Picking a Topic and Goal
Picking a Topic When you’ve made the decision to present at a conference it is most likely that you have some idea in mind of what you want to talk about. You may feel that you have a particular insight into some area of judging that is generally unexplored by others or even that you […]