Enhance your professional development during AIJA’s Half-Year November Conference in Luxembourg

 

Public Speaking Crash Course

Elevate your public speaking skills and conquer the challenges that can leave you feeling apprehensive, uncertain - and in the worst case speechless. As legal professionals, you're well acquainted with the demanding nature of speaking engagements.

AIJA’s SCILL (Skills, Career, Innovation, Leadership & Learning) Commission presents the Public Speaking Crash Course for all speakers, panelists and moderators which is tailored to empower you with tools to bolster your stage confidence, engage your audience effectively, and navigate the unpredictable during speaking engagements smoothly.

About the course:

Public speaking strikes fear into the hearts of most people and yet most of us, either at work or socially, are asked to stand and present to an audience. Everybody can be good at public speaking, but most don’t know where to start to improve. This seminar will focus on a systematic and practical approach to becoming a better presenter. Come and find your voice, learn to own your stage and increase the pleasure of public speaking.

Session Details:

1) Walter Blackburn

 

Walter Blackburn is a world-class expert in presentations and presentations training. He’s worked with both beginners and advanced speakers around the world for over 40 years. Once a poor speaker himself, Walter understands how hard it can seem to become a good speaker. Over his time as an international trainer he has developed an approach that will have anyone speaking well and confidently in a matter of minutes.

His philosophy is that people struggle with public speaking and presentations when they ‘don’t know what to say and they don’t know how to say it’. If they knew that, and set aside some time to practise, they would be far less nervous and far more confident.

 

 

Coaching

AIJA SCILL commission invites you to participate in interactive coaching sessions and workshops during the Luxembourg Half-Year Conference, where we will delve into the theme of "Empowering Global Success: Unleashing the Potential of International Structures in a Heavily Regulated World." These workshops are designed to empower you with valuable insights and practical skills.

 

1) Walter Blackburn

 

Walter is the UK’s Leading Expert in Empathy Styles. He is a relationship & business trainer and coach with 40 years’ experience in practical Emotional Intelligence for business and personal success. He believes that success is often easier than we may believe, if we have the right tools and approach. As a result of his own determination to succeed he has a strong drive to help other people be successful.

 

Workshop

Understanding Other People – Create Stronger Relationships

Psychologists tell us that up to 40% of the people we meet may neither like nor understand us. And, equally, we won’t either like or understand 40% of the people we meet. Of course this can have an impact on our lives, both professionally and personally. 

As humans we are all different, with different mixes of emotions and drivers. But understanding how and why an individual is different from us, and how to manage that difference is a skill, and this ability can be developed in a shorter time than you might imagine.  

Empathy Styles is a unique approach to understanding the way people are and the way they behave. It’s a technique that allows us to ‘read’ someone’s emotional differences very quickly and then to create a relationship strategy with that person, that works for both parties.

This ability is invaluable in dealing with clients, colleagues, friends and family.

The Empathy Styles approach can be learnt in a matter of minutes. For many people who’ve experienced this approach it has changed forever the way they see other people, and how they deal with them. This also affects our Emotional Intelligence – our ability to understand and live with ourselves and others more harmoniously.

Join Walter in this fascinating exploration of how and why people are different and how we can manage those differences, for everyone’s benefit.

In this session you will: 

Session Details:

Online Session: Thursday, 7 November from 16:00 to 17:00 CEST
In-Person Sessions:

  1. Wednesday 13 November from 16:30 to 17:45 CEST  - ECCL (European Convention Center Luxembourg) - Briefing Room UK (Level 0)
  2. Thursday 14 November from 17:00 to 18:15 CEST - ECCL (European Convention Center Luxembourg) - Briefing Room BE (Level 0)

Duration: 75min

Max participants: Subject to room capacity. Further details will be provided soon.

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Small Group Tutorials

In small groups of up to 6 people Walter will explore Empathy Styles a little deeper and discuss individuals’ Empathy Styles profile, if required. It will be an opportunity to discuss any specific issues people are finding with their relationships, either personally or professionally. He will also discuss ideas on how better to engage with clients. The small group makes it easy for individuals to both listen and participate, although there will be no requirement on an individual to share anything they don’t want to. Mutual confidentiality would be expected.

Important to Note: To get full value from the tutorial session participants would be expected to have:

  1. attended one of the sessions (above) or listened to or watched the recording of the webinar available HERE, and
  2. completed the 5-minute Empathy Styles Quick Quiz

Duration: 60min

Max participants: 6

Location: ECCL (European Convention Center Luxembourg) - Briefing Room BE (Level 0)

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2) Tom Goldstein

 

 

I am a certified personal and professional coach (PCC) and has been coaching for the past 8 years. Before becoming a coach, I spent 15 years in working in telecoms, in start-ups and multi-nationals, from individual contributor to senior leadership. Over the past 25 years I lived and worked in different countries, changed careers, built a business, went through a difficult end of a relationship, experienced major challenges at work, and more. 

As a coach, I have more than 1600 hours experience. I create real partnerships with my clients on their journeys of discovery and growth. I bring what I consider to be the best aspects of many different tools, styles and methods to his coaching. I work with clients from many backgrounds, with many different reasons for coming to coaching; from private individuals, to teams, to founders and CEOs. I ask that my clients show up openly and honestly, and see every moment as a chance to stretch and grow.

I love an adventure, and being out in nature. As well as coaching, I work as a hiking guide, and enjoy mountain biking and sleeping out under the stars in my spare time. Every year I will attend silent meditation retreats with one of my teachers, and often a Vision Quest to reset and reconnect. I also have a meditation, QiGong, and nature connection practice which helps me to stay balanced, centred, and joyful in my life and work.

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One-on-One Coaching Session

These coaching sessions are a chance for you to explore how you might be limiting your potential in your professional role, and how you are managing the interaction between your personal and professional life. As busy professionals, we are often on the edge of balance, finding it tough to meet the competing needs in our career and home life. By exploring your current reality, you can get a clearer sense of what you could do differently, and decide what choices you are willing to make in service of your current and future goals.

Duration: 45min

Location: ECCL (European Convention Center Luxembourg) - Briefing Room CZ (Level 0)

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Workshop

Finding practical ways to support your wellbeing

We all know that looking after our wellbeing is important (or at least I hope we do). However the reality of working in a busy law career is that there often isn’t space and permission to take the time you really need to stay on top of your mental, emotional and physical wellbeing.

This series of workshops will focus on identifying what specifically you need most in terms of looking after yourself, and bringing more of a sense of balance to your work and life. Tom will introduce some simple models to keep track of your own balance, as well as simple concepts to keep in mind to motivate you to spend just a little more time on your wellbeing. The workshops will also give you a chance to reflect and discuss with others what your realistic goals might be, and how to overcome the obstacles to achieving those goals.

Duration: 75min

Max participants: 20 

Location: ECCL (European Convention Center Luxembourg) - Briefing Room CZ (Level 0)

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Curious about your self-care habits? Take this quick 5-minute assessment to gain insights into how well you’re looking after your wellbeing. You’ll receive immediate results, and there’s no follow-up—just a snapshot of where you stand. Take the assessment here.