Articles 2006
A View From Down Under: Designating What? by Barrie Brennan October 2006
Part of the importance of the designatory letters used in Professional Associations is to represent different levels of membership, from 'Affiliate' to 'Full Member' to 'Fellow'. These letters illustrate status within the organisation and profession.
Honing vital skills or teaching grandma to suck eggs? article in Financial Times 12th October 2006
CPD: Research by Kingston University
The research division serves the aims and objectives
of the Institute by commissioning and publishing research into all areas of
national and international professional practices and trends. The principal aim
of this research project was to examine and critique how CPD is being
implemented across the professions today, and how far these practices meet the
changing expectations of both the professionals and the public alike. By
understanding the environment in which all professional bodies and their
members work, and assessing the most common and best practices, the Institute seeks to support the
professions in areas of CPD.
ICPD Comissioned Survey of Public by Gfk NOP, Sept' 2006
Results from a phone poll of 1000 members of the public regarding their view of Professional Bodies.
The BVT and the European Professional
by Graham Guest
The BVT is the Association
of higher professions for technology, economy and design or, in German, Bundesverband
höherer Berufe der Technik, Wirtschaft und Gestaltung. It was founded in 1974 as the Bundesverband
staatlich geprüfter Techniker and in 2005 its name was
changed, its field of activity widened to include economy and design, as
well as technology, and its development as an international professional body
begun.
Government Skills Launch - 15/02/2006
'Government Skills' - The Sector Skills Council for Central Government was
launched this month. It has been created to focus on the skills needed to
improve delivery in central government.
Mentoring
and the Development of Individual Performance
by Diane Davy
The origins of mentoring
"Good
mentoring can and should take a performer beyond the limitations of the
mentor's own knowledge." So says Sir
John Whitmore in his Coaching for
Performance in the People skills for
Professionals series of books. He
goes on to say that the essence of coaching and mentoring, two sides of the
same coin, "is unlocking a person's potential to maximise their own
performance. It is helping them to learn
rather than teaching them."
Introduction to Commoditization and the Strategic
Response
by Andrew Holmes
Commoditization -
coming to a company near you
When everything is
the same and supply is plentiful, said Greer, clients have too many choices and
no basis on which to make the right choice. And when this happens, you're a
commodity