The 7 Things A Training Provider Should Never Do
Everywhere you look, there is great advice on how to run training courses, what to do and how to do it. But no one tells you what not to do – those things that are guaranteed to disappoint or detract…
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Thoughtful Friday: Think Like Einstein
Continuing Professional Development shouldn’t be a chore – but to many it is. Spending time training to brush up on your skills, when you have a job to do, can be stressful and tiresome. It’s easy to lose your passion…
How to Manage Disruptive Delegates in your Training
One person can ruin a course if they are not carefully managed. Disruptive delegates are something that you will have to deal with. So here is a fool proof way to deal with them. Start by figuring out how a…
Restructure your Training to Get More Bookings
It’s easy to get stuck in the rut of delivering the training that you have always delivered. So here are five thinking points to help you make your training more relevant and attractive to your clients. Re-structure your courses Instead…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…