For
the first time in quite a long time I attended a conference this weekend as
part of my continuous professional development (CPD) and feel so motivated by
it I thought I would share it with you.
What is CPD?
According to the
Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) continuous professional
development (CPD) “is a combination of approaches, ideas and
techniques that will help you manage your own learning and growth”.
Why do CPD?
As professional
trainers, coaches and mangers we should be encouraging everyone we come into
contact with to keep their CPD up to date. Obviously we should also be doing it ourselves!! The idea is to keep us up to date with
developments in our industry, to keep our ‘little grey cells’ working and to
ensure that we are motivated and developing ourselves as well as other people.
However, we are
like the cobblers children and very often give this great advice and don’t take
it up ourselves…guilty as charged here!!
So as I am interested in eating real natural food I attended the
inaugural Harcombe Diet conference at the weekend in Birmingham.
Not only was it
good for me to be a delegate…which does make you think about some of the things
we take for granted as trainers, such as environment, comfort of chairs, how
long until a break and how important these are to delegates. It was also good for me to see other people present,
manage a large group of over 50 people and give people advice about how to
break habits and become motivated.
The latter is always good as you see things from a different
perspective, get new ideas that you can pass on and generally feel more
motivated than when you arrived!
Well I did anyway!!
So I am going to
ensure that my CPD activities feature in my diary on a regular basis as I feel
invigorated and motivated as I start the working week. Hope you have a great week as well,
Thanks
for your time, Suzanne Unsworth
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