Race Skipper Development Lectures

*This calendar entry and bookable is limited to those members who are part of the Race Skipper Development programme*

Hugh Styles has put together a series of 5 lectures for us this year, to develop our skills.

They'll be delivered as a series of Zoom calls, all to happen at 8pm on their respective days. These were made up for the club, and haven't been delivered before, so allow some extra time in case he runs over on content. It's content that comes from his professional sailor coaching programs, so I'm really looking forward to taking part. The lectures will break down roughly as follows:

Talk #1 - 17^th January

Process Skills, "Knowledge begets Understanding"

1. Plan -

• 1. Performance improvement - "Plan, Do, Review"
• 2. Resources
• 3. Goals, macro and micro (3 goals a day)

2. Do - Processes (aim to get them to create the cheat sheets for these processes, they can adjust and refine with use)

• 1. Speed loop
• 2. Boat handling
• 3. Strategy (Road map, Critical decision points, check in points)
• 4. Watch system

3. Review Feedback

Talk #2 - 21^st February

Teaming Skills, "Together we Each Achieve More"

1. Roles and responsibilities

2. Communication

3. Mentoring

Talk #3 - 13^th March

Performance Skills "Routine Enables Performance"

1. Race setup

2. Tuning and optimisation

3. Safety

4. Provisioning

Talk #4 - 17th April

Routing Skills "Critical Thinking fosters Inspiration"

1. Weather

2. Navigation

3. Performance

Talk #5 - 29^th May

Race Skills - "Failing to Plan is like Planning to Fail"

1. Road map

2. Call book

3. Tactics

4. Rules / admin

Last updated 2:25pm on 16 January 2025