The Effectiveness of CPD on Your Job Performance

In every profession, be it teaching, law, medicine, I.T., beauty therapy and so on, the need for continuing professional development (better known as CPD) is getting stronger than ever. 

A good and well-delivered CPD is essential if it were to deliver full benefit to the individual, their profession and the public.

 So, what are the benefits?

Muovo has found the list below as most pertinent in that it sums up all the benefits you will gain from a well-designed CP (first published by CPD Online):

• CPD ensures  your capabilities keep pace with the current standards of others in the same field.
  
  
• CPD ensures that you maintain and enhance the knowledge and skills you need to deliver a professional service to your customers, clients and the community.
  
  
• CPD ensures that you and your knowledge stay relevant and up to date. You are more aware of the changing trends and directions in your profession. The pace of change is probably faster than it’s ever been – and this is a feature of the new normal that we live and work in. If you stand still you will get left behind, as the currency of your knowledge and skills becomes out-dated.
  
  
• CPD helps you continue to make a meaningful contribution to your team. You become more effective in the workplace. This assists you to advance in your career and move into new positions where you can lead, manage, influence, coach and mentor others.
  
  
• CPD helps you to stay interested and interesting.  Experience is a great teacher, but it does mean that we tend to do what we have done before.  Focused CPD opens you up to new possibilities, new knowledge and new skill areas.
  
  
• CPD can deliver a deeper understanding of what it means to be a professional, along with a greater appreciation of the implications and impacts of your work.
  
  
• CPD helps advance the body of knowledge and technology within your profession.
  
  
• CPD can lead to increased public confidence in individual professionals and their profession as a whole.
  
  
• Depending on the profession – CPD contributes to  improved protection and quality of life, the environment, sustainability, property and the economy.  This particularly applies to high risk areas, or specialised practice areas which often prove impractical to monitor on a case by case basis.

The importance of continuing professional development should not be underestimated – it is a career-long obligation for practicing professionals.

For the busy professional who needs to stay ahead of the changes and developments in their profession there are a number of el-earning benefits using online courses. If this sounds like you then you can look up at an e-learning CPD online. If you would like to learn more about this, send us an email on [email protected].

Have you recently attended a CPD seminar? What was the experience like? Muovo would like to hear from you!

Nikita Pisani at Muovo