Ivan Petkovic is the Coaching Sphere leader. This Sphere aims to provide skills to judges that enable them to grow as judges but also as individuals. Examples of these skills are giving and receiving effective feedback, working in and leading a team delivering rulings and other general communication skills.

Raising awareness about, as well as teaching these skills will ultimately raise the quality of player experience, make leaders more effective at events, projects and in their communities as well as create a better judging environment.

Interested in more? The Coaching Sphere Blog has a wealth of information for you!

The goals of the Sphere are ambitious, and we need help. So, if anything of this sounds interesting, send Ivan an email as he is coordinating between various projects in the Sphere as well as working with the project leaders to achieve their project’s long-term goals.

Projects

[cets_callout_box style=’gray’ align=’full’ title=’Judge Buddy Program’]A system of resources and mentors designed to create the best experience for people working their first big event.
Project lead | Cassidy Melczak Team members | Adena Chernosky, Scott Marshall, Eliana Rabinowitz, Andrew Blizzard, Nole Clauson, Billy Gilmore, Caitlyn Hebert, Jessica Livingston, Ivan Petkovic, Andre Tepedino, Adam White Links | JudgeApps project[/cets_callout_box][cets_callout_box style=’gray’ align=’full’ title=’Random Situation Generator’]Training judges with real time situations.
Project lead | Ralph Glätsch Team members | Khanh Le Thien, Ivan Petkovic, Steffen Baumgart, Matteo Callegari, Jack Doyle, Arseniy Egorov, Konrad Eibl, John Eriksson, Damián Hiller, Florian Horn, Stefan Ladstätter, Alexander Papageorgiou, Mikaël Rabie, Angela Schabauer, Mackenzie Stratford, Jacopo Strati, Ronald Thompson, Yuval Tzur Links | JudgeApps project[/cets_callout_box][cets_callout_box style=’gray’ align=’full’ title=’Level 2 Mentoring’]A tool to help people get from Level 1 to Level 2 and also improve existing Level 2s.
Project lead | Konrad Eibl Team members | Simon Ahrens, Oli Bird, Alfonso Bueno, John Eriksson, Ralph Glätsch, Jeremie Granat, Nick Hall, Nathan Hughes, Lev Kotlyar, Stefan Ladstätter, Khanh Le Thien, Àre Maturana, Kevin Moore, Raoul Mowatt, René Oberweger, Sophie Pages, Ivan Petkovic, Sebastian Pękala, Luca Romano, Charlotte Sable, Jacopo Strati, Zoltán Tóth-Bajnóczi, Hans Wang Links | JudgeApps project[/cets_callout_box] [cets_callout_box style=’gray’ align=’full’ title=’Logistics Workshop’]This workshop allows judges to improve their tournament logistics knowledge by solving different logistic-centered situations.
Project lead | Yuval Tzur Team members | Alon Luski, Ivan Petkovic, Sophie Pages, John Papadakis,
Links | JudgeApps project[/cets_callout_box]