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Taking Selfies – Part Four
Welcome back to the thrilling conclusion of the self evaluation series. If you’re just joining me, be sure to go back to Parts One, Two, and Three. This week, as the second half of my advice on how to...
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My Review Year in Review
Grand Prix Milwaukee, my last major event of the year, is in the books. 2016 was a big year for me as a judge – I worked 13 Grand Prix, 5 Opens, 2 Regional Championships, and 5 PPTQs. I served as a...
View ArticleMy Favorite Coach
What kind of coach do you aspire to be? For me, there’s one coach who stands out above the crowd: coach Greg Popovich of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. In the post-Michael Jordan era, the Spurs are...
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Coaching a Student
Coaching a student is much more in line with the traditional idea of coaching than my last topic. We do this all the time in the judge program. We call it mentoring. In fact, L2 judges are required to...
View ArticleQuality Is Its Own Quality
Last year, I was chatting with some judges in the Mid-Atlantic Slack about review counts, and one of them mentioned that he felt that reviews written was not a great metric to track – that quality...
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Protection from Feedback
I coin a lot of words and phrases related to feedback. Usually, these are complete nonsense. But sometimes the framework of this good game we play and judge offers a phrase with usefulness beyond...
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Flash Feedback
The original version of this article was published on January 6, 2016 on Your Mileage May Vary. It’s been said that the Judge Program is a Cult of Self-Improvement. It seems that within that there is a...
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Mentoring
Mentorat. Mentor. Elève. Si vous deviez choisir un seul concept à associer au programme arbitral, la plupart des gens pencherait pour celui-ci. Du premier jour d’un simple candidat à l’arbitrage avec...
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Mentoring
Mentoring. Mentor. Mentee. If you had to choose only one concept to pair with the judge program, most people would nod their head towards this one. From day one as a judge candidate to judges at...
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Things You May Want to Know About Reviews (Before You Write Your Next Review)
Quite often someone will bring me a concern they have about a review, something that is keeping them from submitting it and providing their feedback. For my first contribution to The Feedback Loop in...
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