Club Management Focus: Autumn 2018

County & Club Director Training Courses

Courses are available for most levels of TDs, whether they want to learn just enough to run a club session, get to grips with more detailed rulings, or move through the ranks to become a County Director.

Club Director Training

EBED’s Club Director Training course is designed for any player who wants to develop their knowledge of the laws or who want to become a qualified director to support their club.

EBED runs these courses at clubs all over the country. All courses are open to members of affiliated and non-affiliated clubs. Participants do not need to be members of the English Bridge Union.

How to run a club duplicate

This course does exactly as it sounds, and helps those who have to run club sessions to understand the basics that are required to make a game of bridge run smoothly, including movements and scoring. The dates in the calendar so far are:

Stamford BC - Sunday 6th January 2019
Oxshott (Surrey) - Friday 25th January 2019
Kesgrave (Ipswich) - Monday 11th February 2019
Solihull (WMBC) - Tuesday 19th February 2019
Wymondham (Norfolk) - Monday 13th April 2019
Oxford - Sunday 19th May 2019

For more details please contact richard@ebedcio.org.uk. Any further dates will be added to the calendar in due course.

Club Director Training Courses

This is a 3-day course, focused on the Laws and giving rulings at the table. It includes both "Book" and "Judgement" rulings which have to be given by a director at the typical club level, and finishes with an assessment. See here for more details.

Courses will be held at:
Pembury (Kent); Oxshott (Surrey); Stamford BC; Kesgrave (Ipswich); Solihull (WMBC);
Patcham (Sussex); Wymondham (Norfolk); Oxford

Please check the calendar for the date of the three sessions at each venue.

It is intended that there will be 15-20 courses held around the country each year, and more dates will be added in due course. Plans are in hand for Cheltenham (Sept-Nov 2019), Stretford (Manchester, March-May 2019), Hayes (Middlesex), Halifax, Durham, East Kent, and Southport (late 2019). There will also be a course in Eastbourne when (all being well) the Summer Meeting returns there in August 2019. EBED would like to hear from other clubs who would be interested in hosting a course - please contact richard@ebedcio.org.uk.

Individuals can now book on these courses online, through My EBU (choose ‘Book courses’ from the ‘Utilities’ menu). If the club wishes to book and pay for an individual then they should do so directly with Richard Banbury - 01296 317218 or by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk

County TD Training Courses

More advanced training is also provided for aspiring County Directors.

Advanced TD Training Day

A 1-day Advanced TD Training Day in spring is for those who need some practice at the type of material that will be tested on the main weekend in the autumn. It is also suitable for those who want a 'refresher day' but who do not intend to go any further.

2019
Southern: Saturday 11th May at the EBU Headquarters in Aylesbury
Northern: TBC
Midlands: TBC

These are a one day course, beginning at 10:30am and ending no later than 4:30pm.

Further details available from Richard Banbury - 01296 317218 or by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk.

To get ready for the preparation course - or to see if it may be suitable for you - please download this test paper consisting of 40 situations to consider. Some are book rulings, some judgement rulings and, in some cases, good old-fashioned common-sense. Some are quite intricate and others straightforward, but hopefully they will all make you think.

County Directors' course

The County Directors' course is for qualified Club Directors who will normally have at least one year's experience of directing and some experience of organising events at County level. The prime objective of the course is to assess candidate's experience to become fully qualified County Directors, based on their performance in the exercises therein. The course is a mixture of table simulations, lecture and written assessment.

The provisional date for the 2019 is 14th - 15th September, most likely in Coventry.

Further details are available here, and from Richard Banbury - 01296 317218 or by email: richard@ebedcio.org.uk.