📄️ Continuing Professional Development
At Convivio, one of our motivations is to have the inspiration, freedom and support to learn, so we can do our best work. We value growing ourselves, our knowledge and our expertise as we continually seek to be better, to aim higher and to think long-term.
📄️ CPD Annual Planning
Every year of a person’s continuing professional development needs to begin by spending some time planning, setting out the priorities and areas of focus for the year. The process of planning for the year should bear in mind both the organisational goals and user needs — what helps the business and our clients, and also what helps us explore our interests and achieve our ambitions.
📄️ CPD Annual Review
At the end of a year of CPD it is important to review what has happened. An annual review is an opportunity to show what has been accomplished in a year of continuing professional development. At an annual review, you can look back at what was done and what was not done, what went well, what problems arose, how problems were overcome. There should be time for some demonstrations, if appropriate.
📄️ CPD Annual Retrospective
Following an Annual Review for the last year of CPD, there should be an Annual Retrospective. Much like a sprint retrospective in agile projects, the CPD retrospective is a time to look at the process of continuing professional development during the previous year. CPD annual reviews look at what was done; CPD retrospectives look at how they were done.
📄️ CPD Sprints & Scrums
It is intimidating to look at a large backlog of things to do over a year of personal development, so to make things more manageable we split the year of CPD into four quarters, and work on them as CPD sprints.