27th October 2008, 05:26 PM
BAJR wrote:
I think a misunderstanding has arisen. My employer (a local authority) does have an established and compulsory management procedure called the Staff Review and Development scheme (SRD), in which employees identify their training and development needs (including their long-term career aspirations) at annual SRD reviews, and their line manager agrees with them a personal development plan with a set of goals for the subsequent year. Their are shorter update meetings during the year. This scheme has been in place for over 10 years in the local authority, and is absolutely a key element of policy and strategy - it is funded. I received training in how to conduct SRD reviews and I've been conducting SRD interviews with staff for years. You'd have to ask a colleague if they thought that their SRD reviews had delivered any of the training they wanted.
But a SRD scheme is not the same thing as CPD. CPD is the responsibility of the individual professional, not their employer (if they have one that is - self-employed professionals are required to undertake CPD just as much as employed ones).
Is that enough info. about my employer? Let's get back to talking about the general issue in the profession as a whole.
(Now determined to shut up for a bit....)
Hal Dalwood
Bad archaeologist, worse husband
Quote:quote:If Hal, in a council unit, knows the worth of CPD, is in an enviroment where you can't move for CPD courses, who advocates the trainging of excavators into HER officers via the schemes of training... if with all these resources, he is not implementing it... then why not? Surely you would not need to wait to be told by the IfA.. the IfA already have a scheme ready.. just go for it..........
I think a misunderstanding has arisen. My employer (a local authority) does have an established and compulsory management procedure called the Staff Review and Development scheme (SRD), in which employees identify their training and development needs (including their long-term career aspirations) at annual SRD reviews, and their line manager agrees with them a personal development plan with a set of goals for the subsequent year. Their are shorter update meetings during the year. This scheme has been in place for over 10 years in the local authority, and is absolutely a key element of policy and strategy - it is funded. I received training in how to conduct SRD reviews and I've been conducting SRD interviews with staff for years. You'd have to ask a colleague if they thought that their SRD reviews had delivered any of the training they wanted.
But a SRD scheme is not the same thing as CPD. CPD is the responsibility of the individual professional, not their employer (if they have one that is - self-employed professionals are required to undertake CPD just as much as employed ones).
Is that enough info. about my employer? Let's get back to talking about the general issue in the profession as a whole.
(Now determined to shut up for a bit....)
Hal Dalwood
Bad archaeologist, worse husband