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<p>Hello Audi Club Northwest Instructors!</p> <p>We had 92 responses for our ACNW HDPE Run Group Assignments survey.&nbsp; The results are in: 86% of respondents prefer the current pace-based run group assignment approach and 83% are satisfied with their typical run group assignment (but 12% would like to be in a higher run group).&nbsp; Based on these results, we&#39;ll continue with the same run group assignment procedure as we have in the past&hellip; but with one small change.</p> <p>To ensure that our customers have the best experience possible - and this is important since we have a lot of competition these days - we want to ensure that we optimize the instructor/student pairing.&nbsp; Part of providing the best experience for the student driver is to make sure that there is a session gap between the student&#39;s run group and the instructor&#39;s run group.&nbsp; In other words, with a 4 run-group event running in order - White, Green, Red, Yellow - if a student is running in Red then we want their instructor to run in White, and if a student is running in Yellow, then we want their instructor to run in Green.</p> <p>This arrangement is beneficial to both the student and instructor.&nbsp; With free time between the student&#39;s and coach&#39;s sessions, the coach can be buckled up in their student&#39;s car prior to the student&#39;s session to provide pre-session coaching and goal-setting.&nbsp; Immediately after the session the coach will have time to provide post-session feedback, help check the condition of their student&#39;s car, and go check out what&#39;s going on in their student&#39;s download session.</p> <p>Similar benefits to you; no longer will you need to sprint to your car because your student just got off track in Yellow and you&#39;re running in the White run group, or cutting your Green session short because your student is up next in Red.&nbsp; You get time to check your tire pressures and fluids, and get a drink of water.</p> <p>I&#39;m sure you&#39;ll agree that this arrangement makes for a much more relaxing day for you, and more importantly, your student.</p> <p>So, what does this mean for run group assignments?&nbsp; For the most part, not much will change.&nbsp; Most coaches will still be in the White run group because most students will be in Red.&nbsp; We typically have about a half dozen or less students in Yellow (last year we averaged between 4 and 5), so we&#39;ll need an equal number of instructors in Green.&nbsp; Note that our students in Yellow tend to be more experienced (except for the novices sharing a car with someone in Red) so we&#39;d ideally like to pair them with more experienced coaches.</p> <p>Going forward this is how it&#39;s going to work:</p> <ul> <li>You&#39;ll tell us what run group you&#39;d prefer to run in by answering the appropriate question in the survey below</li> <li>We&#39;ll try to honor your preference as often as possible, but we will satisfy the requirements laid out above</li> <li>In practice, I suspect that you may drive in your non-preferred run group at most 2-3 days (not events) per season and we&#39;ll balance this out amongst the instructors so we all share the load</li> </ul> <p>If you are assigned to a different run group for an event day, please keep your eyes open and provide feedback on the drivers in your &quot;new&quot; run group.&nbsp; For example, &quot;the driver of that silver S4 should be considered for White - she&#39;s quick and got great car control.&quot;&nbsp; For those of you who haven&#39;t run in Green in a while I think you&#39;ll be pleasantly surprised at how much overall pace they have now.&nbsp; One of the side benefits of our new approach is that we&#39;ll be able to promote more Green drivers to White, which is long overdue for some drivers.</p> <p>Finally, a reminder that as an instructor you are permitted to run in any run group&#39;s session provided that a) it doesn&#39;t affect your student&#39;s experience and b) you drive appropriately for the pace of that run group.&nbsp; So, if you&#39;re assigned to Green but want to do a session in White late in the day, have at it.</p> <p>As always, thank you for volunteering to be instructors with ACNW.&nbsp; We&#39;ve built a fantastic HPDE program with a great culture (Ross Bentley says so) and it&#39;s primarily because you have the most impact on the way our students experience their day and subsequently form impressions of ACNW.&nbsp; Let&#39;s continue to strive to make that experience the best it can be.</p> <p>Please fill out the survey below.&nbsp; Note that it is not anonymous.</p> <p>David Kelley<br /> ACNW Run Group Assignment Coordinator</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>