Continuous Professional Development and its Significance for HR

Developing Individuals,
Teams and Organisations

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Section 1..........................................................................................................................................3
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)............................................................................3
Framework for CPD....................................................................................................................3
Reflective learning.......................................................................................................................5
Feedback for learning..................................................................................................................5
Section 2..........................................................................................................................................6
Implements and evaluates factors that drives sustainable business performance........................6
Learning organization..................................................................................................................6
Training or development..............................................................................................................7
Learning cycles............................................................................................................................7
Barriers to learning......................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
RFERENCES...................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Skills Development can be defined as the procedure that use to determine skills gaps of
individuals and helps to develops skills by providing training effectively. Skills development is
essential for staff within organization so that they can give high quality in their working by
applying their skills. The brief study helps to understand role of continuous professional
development and it’s significance for the HR.
Section 1
Continuous Professional Development (CPD)
Continuous Professional Development refers as the ongoing procedure that use for
developing, maintaining and documenting individuals’ professional skills. It is generally gained
through several courses, training, workplace and others. the main purpose of the CPD to improve
skills of individual and helps to analyse their weaknesses. Individual engages with CPD by using
resources such as online courses, training class, listens to prepare notes on podcast and reads
good journals books and articles (Abrahams and Singh, 2019). CPD can evaluate by individual
because there have feedback section which helps individual to analyse their skills achievement.
Most of the organization evaluates and records CPD because it supports management to analyse
individual skills and capabilities and records supports to compare between previous and current
performance. Based on the analysis and recording easy to measure achievement and
improvement in skills by management. So, CPD evaluates and records by organization to
improve high performance of employee within workplace.
Framework for CPD
CPD framework strategy is used to develop weak area of individual and analyse them
through feedbacks.
Oral and Written communication skills: It is important for individual so it is needed to be
developed. Oral communication skills are essential because it helps individual to communicate
with other person effectively and encourage them to keep their views in front of other people’s.
To improve Oral communication skills takes online courses that helps individual to develop
communication by learning numerous rules i.e. maintain eye contact and coordinate body