3 Killer Tricks to Sell More Training
Know your Accreditation renewal dates When are your different clients’ renewal dates for CPD? For example, Accountants CPD renews on 1st January each year. So what? Well, if you were to log the CPD hours that each delegate has accumulated with you over the year and send this, along with a copy of their certificates during October, […]
Do Professionals do CPD for Pride or Compliance?
For some people, undertaking CPD is something they take pride in – something they would do even if they didn’t have to. But others do the bare minimum to be compliant with their industry body. So, which are your clients, and why does it matter, as long as they do it? Let us first take […]
Six Tell Tale Signs your Training Material is Dead
The last thing you want to spend your time doing is updating your training material every few weeks – re-printing references, hand-outs and slides. But everything has a shelf life…So how many of these training offences are you committing? Slides are two years old Aside from the date on your slides, the content itself starts […]
8 Top Tips from the UK’s Best Trainers
We’re in a fortunate position, getting to see the “best of the best” trainers in action and hear their best advice. Here are their tips. Beware, many sound simple but applying them consistently yields fantastic results. Set the dress code in advance You don’t want to be that person in jeans when everyone else is […]
Why Your Training Business Needs To Be CPD Accredited In Numbers
1600 professional bodies in the UK alone. Each has its own membership with varying membership and CPD requirements. 5,000,000 individuals undergoing CPD or in CPD Schemes in the UK. Each professional undergoing CPD in the UK will average 15 to 20 hours of CPD every year This all means that there are over 12,000,000 days of CPD […]
The CPD Standards 2016 Annual Review
The CPD Standards Office has been busy this year presenting at its quarterly member events and a wide selection of industry conferences. We have moved offices, grown our team and continue pursue research on developments in the CPD arena. Reflecting back over 2016, it has been a turbulent year for business. The Brexit campaign and […]
What It Takes To Be An Award Winning Training Provider
The CPD Standards Office (CPDSO) accredited providers, Avado Learning and Rentokil Initial both won gold at the Training Journal Awards 2016. But what does it take for a training provider to achieve such an accolade? The CPD Standards investigates. As an ongoing supporter of the Training Journal Awards, the CPDSO sponsored the Best Training Partnership […]
Neuroscience And CPD: Making New Connections Between Academia And Business
“Just like paths in a forest, you lose the connections you don’t use.” Neuroscientist and Author, David Eaglman Here at the CPD Standards Office, we have been increasingly interested in neuroscience and behaviour change and started to focus some of our research on CPD in this area. Over the past decade, neuroscience and behaviour change […]
Member Feature Smart Insights On Digital Skills
Smart Insights, Accredited CPD Standards Provider (No. 50052) has given an overview of the top 10 most in demand digital marketing skills during 2016. Dr Dave Chaffey, CEO and Co-founder of Smart Insights says how you can focus your efforts on acquiring these skills. The top 10 most in demand digital marketing skills LinkedIn’s 2016 review of […]
Generation Z: In your Office Soon?
One evening you walk into your kid’s bedroom and ask how the homework is going. In one hand she holds a smart phone on which she is managing multiple Facebook conversations. It also buzzes quietly when a text or Snapchat message comes through. She is viewing a YouTube video on her tablet. And a sitcom […]