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Continuing Professional Development Scheme
What counts as CPD?
CPD is not just about courses and qualifications. It includes a wide variety of activities that lead to learning and development, both personal and professional. Clearly, the primary objective is to enhance your professionalism and therefore it is expected that, in any one year, at least half of the outcomes of your CPD will be directly related to your current employment/business activities. However, the Institute recognises that many members gain great benefits in personal development from a range of general and specialised activities.
CPD doesn't always have to be upwards; it can also be sideways, encompassing anything that helps to broaden your range of skills, knowledge or competence. So even if you are at a standstill in your career and can't move forwards, for whatever reason, there is still lots you can do on the CPD front. CPD activities can take place in many different situations.
Informal or unstructured learning could be:
• Work experience projects
• Coaching and mentoring
• Job rotation and work shadowing
• Planned reading
• Networking
• Using multi-media resources
Formal or structured learning could be:
• Attendance at conferences, seminars or CILT(UK) and other professional meetings
• Distance learning with feedback or some form of assessment
• Studying for a qualification
• Undertaking research
• Attendance at short courses
• Teaching and making presentations
If you are a member of another professional body and already undertaking CPD, then those CPD records will be accepted by CILT(UK) for monitoring purpose, preferably recording specific outcomes.
Contact the Institute for further details about the CPD scheme
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