Preparing for Professional Career (Pass Criteria) - Importance of CPD and CPD Plans

This page discusses the career aspirations of a group and the importance of CPD for professional growth and development. It also outlines six CPD plans for Desklib, including attending online webinars, learning new approaches, developing creativity skills, making the environment healthy and sustainable, becoming futuristic, and improving critical thinking skills. The page includes references to relevant books and journals.

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least six CPD entries- please use the following websites to help you find CPD activities:
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In this section discuss the importance of CPD-
CPD, or continuing professional development, is the term used to describe the additional studying
that specialists do. CPD typically allows employees to reinforce and enhance their skills within the
workplace. However, it encompasses far more than simply studying. CPD provides instructors
with the opportunity to investigate new strategies and techniques, allowing them to keep up with
colleagues who have recently completed training. CPD has been shown to increase trainer
motivation, self-assurance, and commitment to coaching. Learning new skills and applying them
in the classroom can result in a more stimulating and powerful coaching environment. Teachers
can use the same type of simulation education to improve lecture room control and interaction
with difficult students in a secure environment. The digital reality education allows instructors to
engage with students in real time and guide them through areas that they may be struggling with
until they feel comfortable managing those conditions within the lecture room.
What are the career aspirations of the group?
Career ambitions are long-term hopes and desires. People broaden them primarily based on their
personal experiences, including skills, values, lifestyle, and so on. Examples of professional goals
include:
Working in a business that people are excited about Managing or leading correctly Using your skills or
talents in a role Starting or proudly owning a business Earning accolades for expertise.
CPD 1:
We plan on attending an online webinar on the CIOB
website relating to Modern Methods on construction.
This will allow us to gain an understanding in….
How will this help you professionally?
Target deadline: June 23

by 2050. Steel is found
to be one of the
important backbones
of modern economies.
It is facilitating the
transition to a zero-
carbon economy.
CPD 2: Learning new
approaches by taking
online classes on CIOB
website
It is very important for
me to learn new
approaches for
maintaining and full
feeling of the CSR
policy. It can be
possible with the help
of taking online
classes on
CIOB(Peleman and
et.al., 2018). This
website will be very
helpful in order to
provide an overview
of new approaches
and their application.
With the help of
attending online
seminars on this
website, I was able to
learn new modern
methods of
construction. It will be
really very helpful in
my profession
because I will be able
to achieve the goals
and objectives by
enhancing my
employability skills.
This can be possible
with the help of
attending continued
classes on this
website.
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CPD 3: Working on
developing creativity
skills
Creativity skills are
very important as they
allow an individual to
solve and view
problems in a more
open and innovative
way. It is necessary to
understand that an
individual should
focus on their
creativity because
with their help of
them they are able to
use imagination in
It can be improved
with the help of
approaching things
with more and more
curiosity. In addition
to this, I need to focus
on an open-minded
approach.
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creating something
new.
CPD 4: Learn how to
make environment
healthy and
sustainable
The United Kingdom is
focusing on reducing
carbon so that they
can achieve the goal
of 2050 i.e. net zero
(Cookand et.al., 2021).
It is necessary for
every individual to
learn how they can
maintain the
environment healthily
as well as sustainably.
It is the duty as well as
the responsibility of
each individual to
maintain the
environment
sustainable so that
each and every sector
will equally grow.
In order to maintain
the environment
healthily and
sustainably, I need to
learn new approaches
such as sustainable
Steelwork
specification,
specifying natural
slate, bringing the
performance gap, etc.
These are the
important CPDs found
which can be learned
online.
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CPD 5: Learn to
become futuristic
It is important for
every individual they
should have a future
in which they can
easily focus their
future and be able to
achieve their goals
and objectives.
Futuristic is very
important in today's
time as it helps an
individual to reduce
upcoming risks
(Batista and et.al.,
2022). Everyone is
surrounded by
external influences
and that's why it is
very important for
each individual to be
able.
In order to become
futuristic, it is
important for an
individual they should
always focus on
analysing the external
factors and continue
research on them so
that they are able to
find the impact of
external forces. I need
to use an important
framework such as
SWOT and PESTEL
analysis as these are
very helpful in order
to find the internal
and external factors
that influence an
individual life.
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CPD 6: Improving
critical thinking skills
Improving critical
thinking skills is very
important as it helps
in understanding and
assessing the situation
based on information
and facts. When an
individual has
It can be improved
when an individual
exactly knows what
they want. In addition
to this, it becomes
very important for an
individual to deal with
their biases.It is very
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effective critical
thinking skills then
they are able to take
the right decision and
also sort and organise
information in a well-
defined manner which
results in solving a
problem with ease.
important for an
individual they should
become more self-
aware than only they
will be able to
improve their critical
thinking skills
(Nooruddin and
Bhamani, 2019). It is
necessary to
understand that
individuals should
develop foresight and
also need to learn
active listening.
References:
Books and Journals:
Batista, J.P., and et.al., 2022. A review of the continuous professional development system for pharmacists. Human resources for health, 20(1), pp.1-12.
Cook, D.A., and et.al., 2021. Costs and economic impacts of physician continuous professional development: A systematic scoping review. Academic Medicine, 97(1), pp.152-161.
Nooruddin, S. and Bhamani, S., 2019. Engagement of School Leadership in Teachers' Continuous Professional Development: A Case Study. Journal of Education and Educational Development, 6(1), pp.95-110.
Peleman, B., and et.al., 2018. Continuous professional development and ECEC quality: Findings from a European systematic literature review. European Journal of Education, 53(1), pp.9-22.