It is wise to consider the pros & cons of business coaching before you make the decision to hire a professional business coach. This is especially important if the aim of the assignment is to help you be more successful at the major tasks related to your business....

Chartered bodies have the capacity to enable members who meet certain criteria to use an individual Chartered title. Privy Council policy is that the criteria for individual chartered status must be broadly the same across the professions, Chartered Accountant, Charter...

Are you looking to integrate online coaching tools for your professionals at a central member portal intranet, but without high costs for a custom made solution? If the answer is yes, then read this article.

Associations for professionals need to offer their members a...

How do I know what my institution will be looking for in my periodic CPD assessment?

Guidance should ideally be provided by each institution however in the real world this may not be that forthcoming as some institutions may have slight vagueness in their assessment req...

How do I ensure I am up to date with my periodic CPD plan?

It is primarily my responsibility as an individual to ensure that my own CPD plan is up to date and to chase up possible mentors/assessors for feedback and remind them to accept, deny or query any of my plan ent...

Technology is allowing for individuals to be more connected and more able to collaborate and offer knowledge value through a multitude of self-curation tools and services.

There is the xAPI Learning Record Store (LRS) that is leading the change towards a more self-focus...

Do we know how much our CPD plans are going to be important to us as we get older?

How will you want to be assessed when you are staring at retirement? What does retirement look like and will it be different in a few years?

What metrics, business or otherwise, are valuab...

Are professional bodies and institutions having to re-think their own standings in the face of the ever encroaching AI and robotics revolution?

We think definitely yes. If there are less people in the workplace how are they to survive financially with less members? How...

The question we are all thinking about in the past few and the immediate next few years is “What is going to happen to all the jobs once AI has taken over the running of more business processes?” and it confuses all and none at the same time.

Will this automation of job...

Which do you think is the more important criteria to consider when an organisation is seeking to hire a professional worker,

1)     A historical record of achieving of completing qualification programmes (degree or similar)?

2)     Demonstrable experi...