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Gain insights on upgrading criteria, CPD essentials, and action plan for progressing your CIPD membership levels. Learn how to gather required documents, develop a strong application, and secure sponsorship. Take charge of your professional development with practical advice and guidance from industry experts.
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Developing Tomorrow’s Workplace Membership Workshop 17th September 2009 CIPD/Upgrading
Upgrading criteria • Experience • Level of membership (min Graduate) • Organisational level • Range/depth of responsibilities • Impact/influence • Management • Communications and relationships CIPD/Upgrading
What do I need for upgrading? • You will need • An up-to-date CV • Evidence of the seniority level of job(s) you have held (job descriptions and organisation charts can be helpful – but are not essential) • A completed Upgrading Application Form which includes and explanation of how you meet the criteria for the level to which you want to upgrade to. CIPD/Upgrading
What do I need for upgrading? continued/ . . . • Sponsor’s statement • CPD: evidence of reflections on learning in the past 12 months and a development plan for the next 12 months. (This can be included in the Upgrading Application form or attached separately.). • Payment for the upgrading fee CIPD/Upgrading
CPD Essentials • CPD is: • Personal • Like self coaching • A process to enable you to learn from experiences, to improve and to develop • Development should be continuous • Owned and managed • Actively seeking to improve performance CIPD/Upgrading
CPD - More essentials. . . . • CPD should demonstrate: • update in knowledge/skills (past 12 months) • added value professionally • Outcomes from learning experienced • Content (not presentation) • Learning objectives and outcomes should be: • Clear • Serve organisation (or client) need • Individual goals / aspirations • Investment of time & learning – a way of life (not an optional extra) CIPD/Upgrading
CPD Records & Plans • CIPD pro-forma available on-line: www.cipd.co.uk/cpd • CPD - CD rom • Work based record • DIY • Upgrading form: Reflecting back / Moving forward CIPD/Upgrading
Action Plan • Develop an action plan • Set date for completing and submitting Upgrading Application • Draft CPD (identify key learning points / plan learning for next 12 months) • Locate and update CV • Develop additional information to support CV and application to upgrade • Develop CPD Record and Plan (or complete ‘new style’ CPD in application form) CIPD/Upgrading
Identify Sponsor • Polish application / CV and CPD • Pull all your paperwork together • Phone a friend / mentor to arrange for them to review the completed application • Make any final adjustments • Sign completed Upgrading form • Obtain Sponsor’s comments and signature • Complete payments box • Post application to CIPD HQ or attend local panel (check with your branch) CIPD/Upgrading
Branch Upgrading Panel • Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Branch Membership Upgrading Panel - Thursday 22nd October 2009 • To book please contact: • Sarah Barnes, Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire Branch Administrator admindncipd@ntlworld.com • You will be allocated a specific time between 6:30 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. • Venue: Novotel, Bostock Lane, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG1- 4EP (just off J25 of the M1) CIPD/Upgrading
What will you need to take • A completed Upgrading Application form signed by both you and your Sponsor • An up-to-date CV • The relevant fee CIPD/Upgrading
Further information about upgrading: http://www.cipd.co.uk/Membership/upgrade/ • Branch Membership and CPD Advisors: • Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire Branch: Anne Sempik, Email: anne.sempik@ntu.ac.uk • Leicestershire Branch: John Kenney Email: woldsjohn@btinternet.com CIPD/Upgrading
Thank you, Any questions? CIPD/Upgrading