Judging

Whether you’re a competitor, a professional, an event director, or someone who just enjoys watching dance videos online, judging has a big impact on you – and the dance we all love. In this episode, we discuss the skills it takes to judge, what judging looks like in practice, and how judging influences what constitutes “good” dancing. Listen to how we each go about judging, what we think about the quality of judging these days, and what we think is needed to raise the standard and provide greater accountability for judging. (Also, Eric has an encounter of the eight-legged kind…) footnotes Reinventing Performance Management (Eric misspoke when he said 80% of variance in managers’ ratings was due to the managers’ perception; the study found it was only 62%. Read more about the study and performance ratings in the article above.)