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the enhancement of personal skills and proficiency
throughout their careers.
Continuing Professional Development Continuing
Professional Development
(CPD) is a
combination of approaches, ideas and
techniques that will
help you manage your own
learning and growth. The focus of CPD is firmly
on results – the benefits that professional
development can bring you
in the real world.
What qualifies for CPD?
Formal CPD
can be any form of structured learning
that has clear learning
objectives and outcomes,
such as a professional course, structured
online
training, technical authorship, learning that includes
an
assessment measure.
CPD Explained
Development (CPD) and is the
term used to
describe the learning activities professionals
engage in
to develop and enhance their abilities.
It enables learning to become
conscious and
proactive, rather than passive and reactive.
CPD combines different methodologies to
learning, such as training
workshops,conferences
and events, e-learning programs, best practice
techniques and ideas sharing, all focused for an
individual to improve
and have effective
professional development. There are over 1000
institutes & professional bodies across the UK, a
number that is forecast to increase.
Accompanied
by such growth is the acceptance
that academic qualifications must offer
more
vocational and skills-based or ‘practical’ learning.
A structured,
practical and methodical approach
to learning helps employers across
industries to
keep key staff and develop the skills & knowledge
in
their organizations to maintain a sustainable
and competitive advantage.
Engaging in Continuing Professional
Development ensures that both
academic and
practical qualifications do not become out-dated
or
obsolete; allowing individuals to continually
‘up skill’ or ‘re-skill’
themselves.
How does CPD benefit?
CPD
is the means by which teachers continue to develop
their knowledge and skills to ensure they are competent to deliver competent learners care and that the care is effective and flexible care to
respond to society's changing needs.
Why is CPD important in HR?
CPD can be an excellent self-motivation tool, as it reminds HR
professionals of their own development, which can help boost
confidence, strengthen professional credibility and help employees to
become more creative in tackling new challenges.
Structured
CPD / active learning involves interactive and participation-based
study. It is typically proactive and can include attending a training
course, conference, workshop, seminar, lecture, e-learning course or CPD
certified event.
CPD active learning also applies to when professionals
take career orientated exams and assessments (the study and revision
would be considered self-directed learning, see Self-Directed CPD).
Stages of the CPD cycle
Act:
Act upon your plan, and be open to learning
experiences.
Reflect:
Make the most of your day-to-day learning by
routinely reflecting upon
experience.
Apply:
Create opportunities where you can translate
theory
into practice and put your learning to work.
Evaluating Results
CPD results are evaluated through:
1- Knowledge. 2-practice.
3- Behavior.
What is accredited CPD Training?
‘What is CPD’ and ‘How to become
CPD accredited’ are common queries discussed across the varying
industries. Accredited CPD training means the learning activity has
reached the required Continuing Professional Development standards and
benchmarks.
The learning value has been scrutinized to ensure integrity
and quality.
The CPD Certification Service provides recognized
independent CPD accreditation compatible with global CPD requirements.
CPD cycle steps
Step 1 - Initial review
A good way to plan your learning is;
to create a CPD log
To start, a helpful tool is: the AMP Competence Framework. This self-assessment will help you identify current and future areas to
further develop your project skills and knowledge, and assist you in
establishing any learning objectives for the coming year.
Step2 - Plan
Identify the competences and areas that you’d like to focus your
learning on. Develop specific objectives - decide the activities that
will support your development.
These activities should be chosen to meet the APM CPD scheme.
You can use the APM CPD log to start your planning.
Include learning activities that can help you to develop these areas.
It is good to include a range of activities.
Step 3 - Do
Carry out the activities that you planned. You may also find that you gain learning from activities that you did
not originally plan. You can add these to your CPD log too.
Step 4 - Review
Planning and reflecting on your CPD helps to create value out of the
learning that you have done. Review your learning – how have you applied
your learning to your project related work? Is there anything that you
have done differently as a result?
Or perhaps it has reinforced the approach that you have been taken and confirmed that alternative
approaches would not have fitted with what you were doing?
Purposes of CPD :
1-CPD is concerned with maintaining knowledge and skills. More recently, this would be summarized as maintaining one’s competence or competencies; in other words, CPD is about keeping up-to-date.
2-CPD improves and broadens knowledge and skills; that is, CPD is intended to support future professional development.
3-CPD develops personal qualities necessary to execute professional and technical duties; such personal qualities as may be needed to achieve the above two purposes.
What are the benefits of CPD?
Continuing Professional
Development is essential in helping individuals, organizations or entire industries to keep skills and knowledge up to date.
Providing CPD
enables organizations to become a knowledge bank to key stakeholders of
your organization.
CPD accredited training courses, workshops and events
allow professionals to use the learning time towards individual CPD
requirements.
1-For Individuals
Continuing Professional Development helps individuals to regularly focus on how they can become a more competent
and effective professional. Training and learning increase confidence
and overall capability, and compliments career aspirations. CPD enables individuals to adapt positively to changes in
work/industry requirements.
Planning CPD helps to be more efficient with time, and recording CPD
properly provides evidence of professional development (this can be
useful for supervision and appraisals). CPD shows a clear commitment to self-development and
professionalism.
CPD provides an opportunity for an individual to identify knowledge gaps and to resolve these in a recognizable approach
to improvement.
Accredited CPD Providers should make available to individuals a
Certificate of Attendance to attach to their CPD log as evidence of
development once training is complete or the desired standards of
learning have been met.
2-For Organizations
Providing CPD accredited learning benefits your organization through recognition and increased brand perception.
Internal use of Continuing Professional Development encourages and
promotes a healthy learning culture for your organization, leading to a
more fulfilled workforce and retaining valuable staff.
Many organizations have staff with CPD obligations
as members of
professional bodies. In circumstances where internal CPD training
resources are low, organization use outsourced CPD training providers
to meet staff requirements. Outsourced CPD providers are typically training companies, online
learning resources, events & conference organizers
.
They are experts
in their field and provide practical learning opportunities through CPD
events, seminars and accredited CPD courses. Some CPD courses are just 1
or 2 hours long, delivered in a seminar or classroom-style environment.
Other accredited CPD courses can be a full 6-10 weeks program, split
into structured bite-size modules.