Category: CPD
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CILIP’s draft Body of Professional Knowledge and Skills
As part of their Future Skills Project, CILIP has recently invited members to feed back on the first draft of the revised Body of Professional Knowledge and Skills. I have already submitted my comments using the online form, but I thought it would be useful to spend a little longer reviewing the document. The proposed…
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Reflections of an analytic mind
Some months ago I blogged about my take on reflective practice. Since then I have been doing a lot of thinking around the topic, mostly because I have started to put together my CILIP Chartership portfolio and demonstrating that I am a reflective practitioner is a key part of the process. After staring at several…
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CILIP Career Development Group National Conference: ‘The Practical Professional’
Today I attended the CDG National Conference in Bristol. It was a small but very well organised event, which mostly ran like clockwork. Congratulations to the organisers! Apparently the presentations will be available from the event website at the end of the week so, rather than doing a session-by-session review,  I thought I’d focus on…
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CPD23 Thing 5: Reflective Practice
Thing 5 of CPD23 asks us that we consider reflective practice and what it can do for our professional development. I find the term ‘reflective practice‘ slightly misleading. If this method was simply about developing professional practice through reflection, I would have no problem at all. I’m naturally reflective and I invariably get classed…
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CPD23 Thing 3: Public Image Ltd
Thing 3 in the CPD23 programme has got me thinking seriously! I’ll start by saying that, if I’m entirely honest, I am slightly averse to using the word “brand” when talking about people. Two reasons: 1) It reminds me of Stuart Baggs “The Brand” 😀 and 2) I dislike the implication that people are products…