What is CPD?The means by which people maintain their knowledge and skills related to their professional lives.

Wikipedia

What is CPD?The process of tracking and documenting the skills, knowledge and experience that you gain both formally and informally as you work, beyond any initial training. It's a record of what you experience, learn and then apply.

Jobs.ac.uk

What is CPD?The maintenance of professional competence by continuous updating of knowledge and skills.

The BCI

Why CPD?

Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.

Brian Tracy

Why CPD?

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young

Henry Ford

The BCI CPD scheme

• Not currently mandatory• Can be used to upgrade from AMBCI to MBCI• Scheme review in late 2015• Look out for member survey

What counts as CPD?• Structured activity• BCM training courses, conferences, research &

presentations etc.• Unstructured activity• None BCM training, job shadowing, volunteering

etc.• Reflective learning• Mapped to 6 competences in GPG

What resources are available?

How much CPD?

How to record CPD?

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Parish notices

Horizon scan 2015 launched• Published in partnership with BSI• 760 organisations in 72 countries participated• Free to download from BCI website• Summary presentation available

http://www.slideshare.net/TheBCEye/horizon-scan-2015-results-45182155

BCI World• New venue this year – Hilton London

Metropole Hotel• Revised date of 10th and 11th November• Theme – How to rise to the resilience

challenge

Business Continuity Awareness Week (BCAW) 2016

• New date – 16th – 20th May 2016

• Suggestions for theme to Andrew.scott@thebci.org

Working paper series – contributions needed

Papers can come in the form of best practice articles, case studies, empirical research, quantitative/qualitative analysis, or a meta-analysis of available literature in the field, among others.

a. capture the state of knowledge in business continuity (BC) and related fields; b. track current and emerging BC trends; c. provide inputs that may influence the profession; and d. discuss the future of BC as a discipline.

Papers can range from 2,500-5,000 words.

Submissions and enquiries to Patrick.alcantara@thebci.org

Questions?