Upcoming Will Work For Food Presentations
The Will Work For Food programs are presented primarily by and for attorneys, mediators, and arbitrators.
Each Thursday at 8 a.m. Pacific, an amazing colleague joins us for a webinar presentation about a timely topic.
These programs are free. We don’t ask you to pay for these invaluable webinars, instead, we hope that you’ll make a donation of any size to your local food bank.
Does Practice Make Perfect: Benefits of Reflective Practice
The common phrase, practice makes perfect, suggests that experience determines competence. Experience alone does not produce competence. Repetition leads to acting on auto pilot. Mastery is achieved when we use our experiences as learning opportunities.
Most of us work in a bubble. With notable exceptions, we seldom solicit, or receive, feedback. As a result, we have little if any basis for understanding whether and why our efforts were effective and responsive.
There are limited opportunities for collegial support and input. Most of us are solitary beasts, prowling the savannahs of conflict, not part of a pack (or practice group).
Professional development sessions are communal learning experiences where the objectives are: learning about new skills and strategies, or gaining knowledge about theory or research. There are limited opportunities to gain feedback on the use of new techniques or to test our understanding of the ideas presented.
In this webinar, participants will learn the practical, real-world benefits of reflective practice, and how they help improve competence, effectiveness and efficiency.