He concluded his portion of the talk by stressing that it is important to have a willingness to change. If something is not getting the results that you want, do something else. Doing the same thing only reinforces what we know is not working. Bob Wood talked about short-term preparation tactics. Wood recommended listening to three or four recordings so that a player can gauge an appropriate tempo.
Wood recommends tapering off practice sessions one week before the audition.
Also, Wood said that he found a flash-card system extremely helpful. Write the excerpts on 3 x 5 cards, and then shuffle them. If you can play the excerpts satisfactorily in this random scenario, you stand a good chance to succeed. Then, he stands for five minutes with his cases in his hands, after which he walks onstage and performs his shuffled flash cards. Another tip Wood shared came from Philip Collins, Principal Trumpet of the Cincinnati Symphony.