Gradbase And The CPD Standards Office Announce A New Partnership To Digitise Continuous Professional Development Certifications Across The UK.
Continuous Professional Development represents a crucial element of modern employment, especially in the manufacturing and services sectors: whether it constitutes seminar attendance, refresher course completion or specific professional training, CPD is often a compulsory element required to perform certain mansions, onboard specific knowledge and generally advance careers. For this reason, it is desirable for CPD […]
Dale Howarth becomes a CPDSO Ambassador
Dale Howarth from the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, our accredited member, has become an Ambassador with the Professional Development Consortium. The Isle of Wight County Press talk about the award below: Isle of Wight business mentor and speaker is made CPD ambassador
Break The Ice, Don’t Make Ice
Happy Monday everyone! This week we have received some questions on using ice breakers within face to face training courses and workshops. This is an area that CPD Standards doesn’t usually advise or comment on, as an icebreaker exercise normally sits within a ‘general introduction’ to a training course. However, we know that to ‘soften’ […]
What do you want to know about selling training courses? We bust 5 myths…
Here at the CPD Standard Office, we have been getting a ton of questions on how to sell training courses. Having worked with hundreds of training providers, and seen best selling courses to complete flops, we have gotten to know a little bit about selling courses. Would you like to sell more courses? Take part […]
World Of Learning Conference & Exhibition 2018
Senior L&D and HR professionals will gather at Birmingham’s NEC on 16 & 17 October for the year’s must-attend L&D event. Bringing together experts and innovators in the L&D community, the World of Learning Conference & Exhibition has established itself as a hub for sharing best practice, thought leadership and the latest learning technology. This […]
The Rise Of Dubious Accreditation
Dubious Accreditation by CPD Standards Over recent years, it has become far too easy to find a cheap and easy alternative to almost anything. The problem now is that the cheap and easy alternative has almost become the preferred option to rigor and the real deal. So how do we illustrate this phenomenon? The most obvious example […]
Impact Factory: Soft Skills CPD Programmes Breakfast Taster – 13th June 2018
How easy is it to identify your people’s L&D needs? Perhaps the technical skills are clearly defined. But, how do you assess the subtler learning requirements that underpin how people communicate, interact and work together? You’re invited to participate in our upcoming Breakfast Taster to get an insight of how CPD (Continuing Professional Development) soft skills programmes […]
Royalty and CPD
The weekends Royal Wedding in the glittering Spring sunshine was a historical day for Britain; Windsor was on a world stage as an estimated 2 billion people from around the world tuned into watch the young couple’s ceremony and celebrations. A fresh, new approach to wedding nuptials and traditions (going back centuries) showcased how diverse […]
As Virtual Reality Training continues to take over, we have a look at what this means for the future of learning…
What is VR learning? Virtual reality is an artificial environment that the user is submerged into when wearing a headset. This means that learners can put theory into practice immediately if they are learning new skills, or else practice emergency procedures in a simulated environment without the risk of a real emergency. They can even […]
How to generate leads from LinkedIn or Facebook
We’ve all used social media in our social lives, but when it comes to business, the usual approaches don’t work so well. But sites like LinkedIn and Facebook can be great sources of leads for your business if you approach them correctly. You will see many different ways to use social media to promote your […]