What is Continuing Professional Development (CPD)?
Continuing Professional Development is simply a method of ensuring that you achieve the right abilities to do your job and maintain/enhance your expertise. It embraces everything that you do to improve your job performance and your ‘lifelong employability’. Many Professional Institutes and Societies have a requirement for their members to keep a record of their professional updating and development. It can also help those who are, or will be undertaking National Vocational Qualifications (NVQ’s) in the UK. This is also good practice for an organization striving towards being ‘World Class’, a Learning Organisation. Most of these professional societies have a requirement that you demonstrate personal development and learning representing 3-5 days (25-35 hours) per year. Increasingly, your professional society is asking to see proof of continuous development in order to maintain your registration/ professional status. If your professional body does not yet have a mandatory requirement for
