1. TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT
PURPOSE - OBJECTIVE – PLAN – STRUCTURE – MEASURES
Presented by: John Greenwood following Training Group meeting Thurs
Purpose: For presentation and discussion by The General Committee Monday

2. Training & Development Team Introduction to John Greenwood
T&D Leadership
John Greenwood started sailing in 1964 at the age of 4 crewing for his father in a GP14 at Ogston Sailing Club in Derbyshire. He grew up through the club, helming a GP in club racing from 7 and moved to single handed racing at 11 in the Solo Class and enjoyed Club success across a selection of Club Series in a wide range of classes including Larks, Fireballs laser and 5o5. Following International success in the Laser he was invited by Rod Carr, later at the RYA, to sail a Finn and became one of the fist full time sailing athletes of his generation and gaining a top 10 place in the Finn Gold Cup in his second year in the Class. During that time he was recruited by Jim Saltenstall to support the National Laser Youth Coaching Programme working directly with Iain Percy and Andrew (Bart) Simpson amongst others. After failing to gain selection for the 1984 Olympics he attended LA as part of the tune up team in the Soling Class. Following the sale of his business in 1988 he campaigned full time again in the Star Class for the Barcelona Olympics. Along the way he won the Star Nationals 3 times as well as the District 13 Championships and J24 Nationals. Following setting up home and joining Budworth SC with his young children, John led a programme of youth development that saw the Club produce 2 podium positions in the Topper Class. He first joined WKSC in 1999 and won the Finn World Masters titles in 2000 and again in Since then he has continued to race his Finn on and off, and started racing the Dragon & Etchells classes winning Corinthian Trophies at the national & European events. Last year he joined the Albacore Class and secured a credible 4th place in Mike Harley’s 42 year old boat castor Pollox at the Weymouth Nationals & International events with Alex Colquitt, beaten only by works boats from leading international boat builders. John has a passion for sailing at all levels and is keen to support the club in establishing a FRAMEWORK that will support the encouragement of sailing in the club on an ongoing basis.
In his work life, John is a Customer Service specialist and Director of his own business that helps organisations comply to payments and data compliance regulations. In the past he has run large transition projects including launching MSN for Microsoft Corporation, launching the National Lottery for Camelot and Home Shopping for J Sainsbury and hopes this experience will help him to support WKSC in the encouragement of the sport of sailing.

3. CONTEXT OBSERVATIONS SOLUTION
Training & Development Team
Setting the scene
CONTEXT
WKSC is a well established sailing club associated with a global sailing event, The Wilson Trophy. Whilst the delivery of that event continues to be seen as world class, that level of quality is not consistently reflected in all other areas of the clubs sailing activity. That means that an opportunity exists to rectify this balance and support all Members with access to world class sailing resources.
OBSERVATIONS
WKSC benefits from a unique position in terms of it’s physical positioning as a town club and it’s access to tidal and still water, both suitable for sailing, sailboat one design and handicap racing across dinghy and small keelboat classes and is uniquely suited to team racing due to the uniform physical restrictions of the lake. In the past there has been too much dependency in the efforts of individuals in specific roles. This puts the Club in a vulnerable position and has led to ‘knowledge’ silo's as well as silo’s in the coordination of resources. That has led to inefficiencies and a restriction in the open availability of Member resources to all Member groups. That has led to a mixture of discontent and missed opportunities in terms of evenly promoting the sport of sailing to Members and prospective Members within the NW region of the country.
SOLUTION
The proposal is to build on the existing training infrastructure within the Club and extend that groups brief to include development, under a TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK supported by selected individuals identified as having the experience within a WKSC environment and the sailing and coaching experience to deliver their role as part of an overall team.
This Group, will coordinate very closely with the existing Flag Office and administration structure already established within the Club to ensure consistency of message but more than anything else, prevent knowledge silo’s developing and to ensure the Club delivers on it’s primary objective (RULE #1) of encouraging the sport of sailing. In reality this means providing access to skills and resources to all existing and prospective Members, that encourage them to take part in the sport of sailing to the fullest extent of their physical ability. To do this we must define sailing in it’s broadest terms. That means encouraging social sailing in all types of boats, casual racing in one design boats as well as in our feeder handicap fleets, and we should also support those who want to race at higher levels, be that regional, national or at international level.

4. To enable and support the Club in the delivery of RULE # 1.
Training & Development Team
Purpose and objectives
RULE # 1.
The object of the Club shall be the encouragement of the sport of sailing.
PURPOSE
To enable and support the Club in the delivery of RULE # 1.
OBJECTIVES
To provide the infrastructure, skills development resources, administration support and reporting necessary for the Club Officers to deliver the Clubs primary objective.
To ensure that every sailing member is encouraged and enabled to enjoy the sport of sailing to the best of their physical ability, irrespective of what that might be.
To ensure that the Club is compliant and supportive of all best practices communicated by World Sailing and the RYA, as the UK Governing Body of sailing.

5. Training & Development Team Measure of success
RULE # 1.
The object of the Club shall be the encouragement of the sport of sailing.
RYA audit measures to continually meet WKSC obligations under qualifying schemes:
Onboard
Youth
Training Centre
Champion Club
Sailability
Adoption of World Sailing measures 2020 onwards
Increase in the numbers of Members sailing (racing and social)
% Sailing Members
% Members entering more than X club events
% Members entering more than Y club events
Numbers of Members travelling to more than one external event
Numbers of Members travelling to National and International Championships
Numbers of Members awarded Regional Squad status
Number of Members awarded National Squad status
Increasing the numbers of sailing Members (new Members)
Conversion rate of course attendees to Members
Number of Members from other clubs
Improvement in quality scores of: (racing & social)
Club event choice
External (Open, National & International) events
Event administration
Event management
Improvement in quality scores for training in both content and delivery
Juniors
Adults
Coaching
Social sailing
Safety
Recommendations for development of resources and facilities put forward to General Committee
On water (racing & social) e.g. Equipment
Off water (directly supporting sailing) e.g. changing, equipment storage, training, F&B

6. Hd of Training & Development
Proposed structure for WKSC Training & Development Team
Admin
Reporting
Resourcing
Content
Quality
Promotion
Coach Dev’t
Hd of Training & Development
Monday
Onboard
TRAINING
Racing
Race Admin
Race Mgt
Social Sail
Safety
Assets

7. RYA Training Principle
Peter Williams
Kieron Inman
RYA Training Principle
Mike Mayhew
Mark Creasy
Paul Colquitt
Proposed DEVELOPMENT Team to support T&D structure for WKSC
Admin
Reporting
Resourcing
Content
Quality
Promotion
Coach Dev’t
John Greenwood
Monday
Onboard
Racing
Race Admin
Race Mgt
Social Sail
Safety
Assets

8. RYA Training Principle
Peter Williams
Mike Mayhew
Kieron Inman
RYA Training Principle
Mark Creasy
Paul Colquitt
Sally Bromilow
Proposed TRAINING Team to support T&D structure for WKSC
Admin
Reporting
Resourcing
Content
Quality
Promotion
Coach Dev’t
Duncan Swan
Monday
Onboard
Steve Jardine
High Performance
Racing
Race Admin
Race Mgt
Liz Potter
Social Sail
Peter Williams
Safety
TBC
Assets

9. Promoting the sport of sailing
Training & Development Team
Dealing with the issue of payments
The object of the Club shall be the encouragement of the sport of sailing.
Promoting the sport of sailing
The challenges we face and the balance required to support ongoing development.
The basic principles we should promote and follow to maintain a balanced approach.
Class Captains and those responsible within the Training structure what to promote their Classes and deliver training to meet RYA standards
Rule #1 applies in all scenario’s. That means Members should not charge Members for supplying services to support Rule #1
However, training cannot ALWAYS be delivered to meet the RYA’s minimum guidelines without some level of recompense for peoples time, costs and effort
The Club needs to provide and maintain training assets to meet the needs of Club Members
TRANSPARENCY. Members money needs to be transparent to the Club
PLANNING. Class Captains (and those responsible for Training Delivery) can submit budgets against which they can freely spend
COST RECOVERY. If a charge is made for training delivery, then the Club needs to recover costs for the use of Club assets