Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of Continuing Professional Development to professional associations, employers and employees.

Professional development is an opportunity to reflect, share common goals, support each other as well as learn from others knowledge, expertise and experience. Regular supervision and training of staff can lead to reduced sickness and absence, it can improve the service that they

2.1 Evaluate prior learning and work-related experience to identify personal strength and weaknesses in self-development.

The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to promote the professional duty to maintain the currency of knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.

The purpose of this unit is to assess the learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills required to promote the professional duty to maintain the currency of knowledge and skills and the need to continually reflect on and improve practice.

It is important to continue your professional development throughout your career or chosen profession, as this will help your knowledge to grow and expand. There are many ways in which you can constantly keep improving on this. You

I maintain my own CPD by reading material on internet CQC and skills for care are an excellent site, I also subscribe to magazines and newsletters, I attend courses and seminars plus work closely with other professionals. It is important that I keep myself up to date with legislation and changes as I have the responsibility of ensuring all staff are aware of any changes in regulations or current practices, plus touchstones believes a fully trained and developed workforce that know and understand and are able to promote legislation is more beneficial to residents.

CPD is an ongoing process which supports people in a workplace to understand more about the environment they work in and how to be more successful at the job they do. This also allows them to expand their

Assignment 1- What is the purpose of initial assessment and what kind of methods could be used?  Evaluate these methods with reference to the ways they can help in the overall objective of achieving learning goals.  How can you ensure learners are kept motivated and working towards these goals?

As a professional, I have a responsibility to engage in continuous professional development. This means taking action to keep my skills and knowledge up to date and seeking to improve your capabilities across the range of tasks I carry out daily.

Professional development is the systematic and comprehensive approach to continuous learning that will ensure employees remain abreast and current in their field, enhance knowledge and skills, and engage in activities that will contribute to the sustained growth of Catawba Valley Community College. Each employee is responsible for developing an annual professional development plan that aligns with the Catawba Valley Community College short and long term

All professional development experiences should be: based on an assessment of need; generated from outcome objectives; planned for successful, progressive learning; and evaluated for attainment of delineated outcomes. A variety of methods, settings, and types of experiences should be employed to best meet the acquisition of new knowledge, skills, and abilities.1

“Develop personal skills” – The framework will assess competencies of the community members involving in the project; as well as the capacity building plans and actions of the providers (Principle1.1).

Ability to reflect on own practice and development needs and maintain a plan for personal development

Induction training is training given to new employees. The purpose of the induction training (which may be a few hours or a few days) is to help a new employee settle down quickly into the job by becoming familiar with the people, the surroundings, the job and the business. It is important to give a new employee a good impression on the first day of work. However, the induction programme should not end there. It is also important to have a systematic induction programme, spread out over several days, to cover all the aspects in the shortest effective time. The advantages of induction training are that they are cost-effective and to have the opportunity to learn whilst doing training alongside real colleagues. The disadvantages of induction

This report has briefly summarised the CIPD Profession Map – the 2 core professional areas, 8 specialist professional areas, the 4 bands and 8 behaviours. It has also commented on the activities and knowledge specified within the Performance and Rewards professional area at band 1.