THE QUALITY–QUANTITY PHENOMENON

July 6 and 7 were the dates for the Third NLP Research Conference and I had the privilege of giving the keynote presentation. 30 papers were presented about research projects that people had conducted in many different countries and languages although all of the presentations were made in English. Researchers, Trainers, and Academicians came from 10 or 12 different countries. I was really, really delighted that we had two of our people there delivering papers.

• Dr. Suzie Linder-Pelz from Sydney Australia presented a study of the effect of benchmarking on participants and did a fabulous job! I sat in and when she mentioned the title— “The effect of Benchmarking on participants” I sudden experienced a vision of a rush of faces of many, many participants which I’ve seen in many, many countries when the benchmarking of their skills didn’t support their own sense of competence (!!). In spite of my personal anticipation of horror (!), Suzie had a great presentation in terms of research design, quality, and reflection.