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Consultancy

Continuing Professional Development

Both the courses that keep a workforce current, and the consulting that helps an organisation design, run and measure its own CPD scheme.

CPD

Professional development courses for organizations and employers bring benefits to the smallest start-ups and the largest multinationals. No organization can succeed without a knowledgeable and highly skilled workforce.

To ensure your staff are effective and motivated, the association offers CPD courses for organizations of all types and sizes, from SMEs to charities and global corporations. Investing in CPD means your organisation's standards remain high across the workforce and its sector knowledge stays up to date. The association works closely with professional bodies to align its courses with industry expectations, and offers flexible modes of study tailored to your requirements, including in-house and customized training programmes.

The importance of continuing professional development should not be underestimated. It is a career-long obligation for practising professionals, and the ultimate outcome of well-planned CPD is that it safeguards the public, the employer, the professional and the professional's career.

What the association's CPD does

  • Ensures your business capabilities keep pace with the current standards of others in the same business.
  • Ensures you maintain and enhance the knowledge and skills your staff need to deliver a professional service to your customers, clients and community.
  • Ensures staff and their knowledge stay relevant and up to date, and that they are aware of changing trends and directions in their professions.
  • Helps staff continue to make a meaningful contribution to the team, becoming more effective and advancing into positions where they can lead, manage, influence, coach and mentor others.
  • Helps staff stay interested and interesting. Experience is a great teacher, but it does mean we tend to do what we have done before; focused CPD opens up new possibilities, knowledge and skill areas.
  • Delivers a deeper understanding of what it means to be a professional, and a greater appreciation of the implications and impacts of the work.
  • Helps advance the body of knowledge and technology within the profession.
  • Leads to increased public confidence in individual professionals and their profession as a whole.
  • Contributes to improved protection and quality of life, the environment, sustainability, property and the economy, particularly in high risk or specialized practice areas that are impractical to monitor case by case.

CPD strategy

With over ten years of research into CPD for institutions and corporate bodies, the association's support gives you global context for best practice, including methods of recording, measuring, funding and supporting online CPD.

It guides you on CPD governance frameworks, including the best ways to evaluate the impact of CPD on performance and practice, setting standards, and audit and assessment methods. The association's model helps your organisation develop a clear strategy to move towards output-based measurement in all four stages of the CPD cycle: planning, action, evaluation and reflection.

Through this service, determine the appropriate support, assessment and audit systems that meet the needs of your organisation and the regulations specific to your country.

CPD process review and provision

The association has a wealth of knowledge about the practical elements of designing and running a CPD scheme, from years of working closely with institutions and corporate bodies, which enables it to authoritatively review and improve your CPD.

CPD can take many forms. Most organisations deliver their own learning, face-to-face or online, or promote, approve or accredit that of other providers, and the association advises on the approaches you can take. It can also help you identify the national and international educational institutions that best deliver the CPD your members need, and assess ways of delivering that education.

It also supports improvements to the way you deliver CPD, helping you create a format and content that aligns with your CPD strategy, working in partnership with technology suppliers, and promoting your offering.