What are the benefits of CPD?
'Continuing Professional Development is the conscious updating of professional knowledge and the improvement of professional competence throughout a person's working life. It is a commitment to being professional, keeping up to date and continuously seeking to improve. It is the key to optimizing a person's career opportunities, both today and for the future.' (The Chartered Institute of Professional Development, 2000)
Engaging in CPD can:
- Support progression into a management or leadership role or new career path
- Enable professionals to keep pace with changing technologies, developments and advancements in their area of employment
- Provide an opportunity for the recognition of professional skills
- Challenge practitioners intellectually
- Build confidence and raise profiles through networking
- Promote reflection on own and others' professional practice
- Enhance performance
'Continuing professional development is the systematic maintenance and improvement of knowledge, skills and competence, and the enhancement of learning, undertaken by an individual throughout his or her working life.' (Institute of Continuing Professional Development)