Thomas Ralph L3,\u00a0United Kingdom<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n
This year we brought you articles on seven different topics to help improve conferences where you, the readers, facilitate seminars. We also delivered a one-day facilitator development workshop in Taunton, UK, a face to face opportunity to learn and practice facilitation skills, with judges being filmed practicing their presentations and getting detailed feedback from the facilitator and the other judges.<\/span><\/p>\n You don\u2019t know what we\u2019re talking about? Matteo Callegari<\/a> We\u2019re delighted to share what some of the people who used our resources thought about them and their experience facilitating seminars armed with their new skills.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>Amy Tanner<\/a> <\/p><\/div>Mirko Console<\/a> The articles Mirko is talking about are Avoiding Common Mistakes<\/a> by Patrick Ericsson<\/a> <\/p><\/div>Kevin Binswanger<\/a> .<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>Jack Doyle<\/a> Preparing his presentation took him a bit longer than usual because he had to find the images to use. But Jack found that \u201cwhilst I was onstage, I knew what I wanted to say and didn\u2019t have to read the screen or my notes\u201d. He added \u201cthe images cued me and I was prepared for the upcoming slides\u201d.<\/p>\n Jack got excellent feedback from other judges about the seminar. \u201cPeople told me it was very engaging and easy to follow\u201d, he said, \u201cand the best honour of all was getting voted as the best seminar of the conference by my fellow judges\u201d.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>Luca Chiassoni<\/a> \u201cTo be honest the first thought about trying to present a seminar was to challenge myself. \u2018Will I have something to teach other judges?\u2019 The answer to that question was not that hard: once I was involved in the Judge Program I’ve learned that everyone has something to teach and everyone has something to learn.\u201d<\/p>\n These concepts are developed in George Gavrilita<\/a> Luca continues: \u201cOk, I knew I wanted to be a presenter, but what could I teach? I need to find something I am good at if I want to actually analyze and teach it. I’ve found the answer to this question thinking what were the things that other Judges ask me the most. And here we go, topic found!<\/p>\n So the last follow up question was: \u2018Will I be able to actually teach something?\u2019<\/p>\n Here things started to get tough, but since I like challenges I asked Mirko Console (the Judge in charge of the Italian Judge Conference this autumn) for a chance to present a seminar. Not only did Mirko give me this opportunity, he also linked me all the articles on this blog to help me out with my first seminar.<\/p>\n That collection of articles helped me a lot, since I am a pretty new presenter, and with the new ideas I’ve learned, I managed to put down the sketch of my seminar. I wanted my seminar to be as good as possible, so the next step was to ask the mighty Matteo Callegari for help, whom I am lucky to live close to.\u201d<\/p>\n Luca prepared his seminar using the method\u2019s described in On the Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cI came to him with a sketch of my seminar, made a first presentation to him so he helped me to focus on the topic and gave me an idea of the correct use of the pauses, the discussions with the audience during the presentation and so on.\u201d<\/p>\n We\u2019re really pleased we could help these five judges to take their facilitation skills to the next level this year. Have you had the opportunity to put some of our tips to good use? Is there something you\u2019d like to learn more about from an article next year? Or perhaps you\u2019d be interested in attending a future facilitator development workshop? Please comment below or contact any of the authors on this blog!<\/p>\n We have an even richer schedule prepared for 2016, where new and old writers will deal with Body Language, Workshops, Story Telling and much more. Until then, from everyone at the Conference Blog, Happy Holidays!<\/p>\n Is this an interesting read? Do you also have something to say about\u00a0slides and seminars? We are always looking for feedback, but even more\u00a0for collaborators! It doesn’t matter if you want to help writing\u00a0already scheduled articles, or share entirely new ideas. Contact\u00a0George <\/a> This year we brought you articles on seven different topics to help improve conferences where you, the readers, facilitate seminars. We also delivered a one-day facilitator development workshop in Taunton, UK, a face to face opportunity to learn and practice facilitation skills, with judges being filmed practicing their presentations and getting detailed feedback from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"language":[13],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-conference-presenters","language-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/conferences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/span><\/span> has you covered, explaining everything you need to know about Your First Conference<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, United Kingdom, Ireland & South Africa region, attended a facilitator development workshop in Taunton. She was quite new to judging and to seminar delivery. \u201cI have come away with more confidence\u201d, Amy told us, \u201cto put the conference blog topics into practice\u201d. She is now training to deliver the facilitator development workshop herself in 2016.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Italy & Malta region, had spent a few years away from the judge program, but this year he organized his first judge conference. \u201cIt was really exciting and demanding\u201d, said Mirko, \u201cand having some articles to read has been a useful starting point for me. I used them to refresh my memory and as guide for the presenters who wanted to improve their skills.\u201d As he had around ten facilitators to co-ordinate, he said \u201cit’s been important to have a document ready to give to them to explain what I was expecting from them, and how to create a better presentation\u201d. Mirko was happy that the articles on the judge blog saved him time and allowed him to dedicate more time discussing the actual seminar topics with his judges.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span>, Connecting with the Audience<\/a> by Daniel Sole Garcia<\/a>
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<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, USA \u2013 South region, particularly liked Presentation Design Principles<\/a> by Ivan Petkovic<\/a>
<\/span><\/span>. \u201cI’ve been trying and failing for years to write this topic in a long and detailed article\u201d, he said. \u201cOf course it’s obvious after the fact that the right way to teach this topic is with more pictures and fewer words.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, United Kingdom, Ireland & South Africa region, agrees. He was preparing a seminar on Bribery for his regional judge conference in November, and on the subject of Ivan\u2019s articles, he remarked \u201cIt was a completely different style to how I used to design computer presentations, but I decided I\u2019d try it out\u201d.<\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/strong>, Italy & Malta region, found the articles on the blog an invaluable resource. I\u2019ll let him take up the story.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/span>\u2019s Inspiration<\/a> article.<\/p>\n
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