Continuing Professional Development, Benefits of

There are significant benefits which can be gained by engaging with CPD, these can include:

• Maintaining your currency and relevance of skills and knowledge, which is particularly important in a modern, often rapidly changing working environment.
• Helping to contribute to a skilled, high or well preforming, team.
• Contributing to an organisation that is wanting to be at the forefront of skills and knowledge developments, continually demonstrating best / good practices.
• Increasing your knowledge, understanding and skills of relevant subject areas.
• Improving personal behaviour techniques and interactions with others.
• Contributing to personal motivation and confidence building.
• Contributing towards maintaining and improving memory retention and recall ability.
• Being able to manage your own learning and development, if not entirely, at the least it should be a significant and major contribution to it.
• Building a career pathway and improvement in job prospects.
• To learn and develop transferable skills to support a current role, but also to increase adaptability to other roles, which might also be outside of a current career.
• Ensuring working practices are legal and safe.
• Improving, at least potentially, work performance, both efficiency and effectiveness.
• Enhancing an individual’s professional status and reputation: being seen by peers and others as a professional.
• Provides a foundation on which to mentor and influence others.