Workshop Code: CPD11021
Workshop Title: Professional Development and Ethics
This workshop places major emphasis on understanding the processes of professional development and competency acquisition. Most practitioners associate competency with task dexterity and job-related skills, which is referred to as 'normative skills'. The question is how relevant and valid normative concepts are in today's environment of change and uncertainty. Competence is about autonomy; self-reference and group self-organization, i.e. the relatively enduring qualities that empower professional people to perform well individually and in groups despite prevalence of complexity and rapid change. It must be underpinned by strong personal and group ethics.
Professional Development and Ethics Workshop Brief
The workshop will cover:
1. Fundamentals- Introduction to course aims, objectives, target competencies, learning strategies, resources available, timetable and deliverables, assessment methods and related briefings
- Briefing on how to conduct each phase and the entire unit of study
- The environment, mega trends and the rise in complexity and change and impact on individuals and organizations
- Envisioning the future and setting of realistic goals
- Ethics and professional conduct
- Group work and class discussion on the impacts of change on individual professionals and businesses
- Competency assessment and setting of professional goals
- SWOT analysis and development of strategies to aid own professional development in an optimum manner
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Lecture and group work: peer and group assessments
- Working with APIC's tools and systems
- Group work: consolidating and aligning individual learning and development challenges
- Presentation and discussion: groups to present their findings
- The way ahead: scope for individual assignment
- Continuous progress mentoring and improvement
Aims and Objectives:
- Understand how to conduct environmental scanning and blue sky thinking
- Understand how to assemble and analyze mega trends generally and in specific
- Learn and apply principles of ethics and ethical conduct
- Define/refine your professional goals and set development targets
- Conduct SWOT analysis and develop optimum strategy
- Conduct broad competency assessment in respective areas
- Develop personal learning and development plan
- Define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics to assess progress against plan
- Compile and submit your L&D plan to continually improve yourself
- Manage and enhance own professional competencies