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The A.C.C.R.E.D.I.T.E.D Frameworks are an important element of the accreditation process as they ensure that your materials meet and exceed the required standards.
Every activity we accredit has been through rigorous assessment to ensure it meets CPD standards.
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Verify your credibility as an individual and demonstrate that you have the credentials to deliver excellent CPD.
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We recognise companies who hold values at the heart of the business, investing in their employees.
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We review you and/or your organisation against the relevant A.C.C.R.E.D.I.T.E.D Framework.
We provide you with feedback detailing our findings and highlighting areas of improvement.
Our Accreditation and Compliance Team is made up of a wealth of industry experts. They replicate the journey of the learner, mapping the course material from start to finish.
Once the Accreditation and Compliance team has assessed your application against the framework, they will provide feedback on what works well and what you can improve on. We won’t accredit any applications until we’re satisfied that it has met all the A.C.C.R.E.D.I.T.E.D criteria, giving you the opportunity to excel CPD standards!
The CPD Group recognises the importance of activities being accessible to all learners. That's why accessibility is an integral part of the framework and something that is taken into account when assessing your individual activities.
Are you mindful of those with disabilities and account for any struggles they might face which could affect the quality of their learning experience with you?
For example, we make sure your activity is accessible to those who have visual impairments or are hard of hearing.
Content is key. Our Accreditation and Compliance Team thoroughly check the content of your activity to ensure that the information you have provided is factually correct, relevant and up-to-date.
It’s crucial that your learners are receiving accurate information if they are to have a purposeful learning experience. Ensure you are using legitimate and trustworthy sources when gathering content and referencing throughout.
It’s one thing to have great content. But it’s how you deliver this content that will make or break a learner’s experience!
The Accreditation and Compliance Team are looking to see how your activities are delivered to your learners and whether they are likely to remain engaged throughout.
Do you include various methods of content delivery such as video, group discussions, handouts? How do you get this information to stick with learners?
Is the content within your training materials relevant to the subject? Do your handouts reflect the content that has been delivered throughout the session?
It’s really important that your content is relevant and flows seamlessly throughout, this ensures that your learners are getting exactly what they expected upon purchasing your course.
We check to see whether the contents of your activity are relevant to what is advertised online and if these promotional materials are misleading in any way.
Ensuring that the right people are attracted to your offer is vital when promoting your activities.
Prerequisites are a way of making sure that students meet the eligibility criteria and enrol onto a course or subject with some prior knowledge. It might be that your activity has no prerequisites to enrolment, which is perfectly fine, but our Accreditation and Compliance Team will be interested to know if there are any.
If there are prerequisites, it is essential that this is clear from the start so that potential students can make the choice as to whether your activity is right for them. Will your students need to prove that they have met the prerequisite criteria? If so, how?
All good things to cover to ensure you are aiming at the right market and attracting the right people.
The devil is in the details! The Accreditation and Compliance Team examines the smallest details to ensure your Activity is entirely accurate, easily understandable and adheres to professional writing standards.
Are you including up-to-date references where applicable? Are these references reliable, from a credible source? Is your spelling and grammar correct? If your learners are going to take your activity seriously, they’ll expect to see well written sentences, correct punctuation and fantastic grammar.
We cannot emphasise enough how important it is that you own or are licensed to use the materials you are offering.
The Accreditation and Compliance Team check that the content has been truthfully and legitimately produced, looking out for clear indications of plagiarised content.
Again it’s important you adhere to professional writing standards by including references where you have used other people’s work and have been granted access to do so.
Where you have been given permissions to use other’s work, we will ask to see evidence of this.
If you’re not sure about the rules of Intellectual Property, we have some handy information to clarify this under “Resources” in your CPD account.
How do you test your learner’s competency?
An effective activity will contain some form of assessment that enables the learner to solidify the knowledge they have gained and validate their progress.
This also gives a good opportunity for you to analyse the results to understand where learners are under performing. If there is a theme, you are able to review your delivery and monitor whether this affects future results.
An excellent activity will benefit from its creator being fully clued up on their specialist subject.
The Accreditation and Compliance Team will always check that the author of the Activity possesses the relevant knowledge and experience in creating the activity effectively.
You wouldn’t want to be taught to drive by someone who has never driven - we’d need evidence that you’ve been in the driver's seat!
After our Accreditation and Compliance Team assess your activities, and prior to them being submitted to The CPD Register, our Assessors will assign a number of CPD CREDITS to the activity to help people record their ongoing CPD.
CPD CREDITS are worked out as 1 hour of study = 1 CPD CREDIT, so establishing the correct number of hours, on average, students take to complete the activity, including any ‘Home Study’, is vital to ensure the correct number of CPD CREDITS are allocated to each individual activity.
This helps employers set and monitor CPD Targets, while offering individuals a clear way of evidencing their ongoing development.
The CPDGroup understands that the world of CPD Training is competitive. There are many trainers out there offering similar training opportunities, so what makes a customer choose one trainer over the other? How can a trainer stand out from their competition?
Tell us about yourself, your experiences, what makes you the trainer of choice? Why should a potential customer choose you over the next trainer?
The more information you share, the more potential customers will be confident in your background and abilities.
Do you keep your Curriculum Vitae (CV) up to date? Not only is a good way to share your skills, knowledge, and past experiences, but it is also an excellent sales tool.
As part of our Trainer Accreditation application, we will be looking for your mostup to date CV to reflect your educational and professional background and evidence that you have the relevant experiences and qualifications to deliver the training within your portfolio.
The best way to build trust with potential clients is to be very open about your qualifications and experience in any given subject you are promoting training in. There is no better way to evidence your credentials than providing certification showing you are indeed qualified in the subject you are teachingand not only that, but that you are also qualified to teach!
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to ensure that you are able to evidence your qualifications to deliver particular subjects through your previous certification.
When promoting your Training Courses to potential customers, informing them of where you are able to travel to deliver your courses it is of paramount importance. You don’t want to use your valuable time dealing with enquires from people outside your delivery region.
As part of your application, let us know where you are willing to travel to or if you are a local trainer.
As part of the assessment process our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to ensure that your learners always evaluate the training they have taken part in. This is not only a great way for your learners to share their feedback with you directly, but also a source of development for the Trainer themselves.
Evaluation and reflection from your customers is the best way to identify areas for improvement for yourself, and whilst it offers the trainer personal goal setting possibilities, it also enables trainers to demonstrate these attributes to their learners as well.
Many trainers have a variety of training activities in their portfolio and in a variety of formats, from basic awareness raising training online, through to top end Qualifications delivered face to face in a classroom environment.
Let us know not only the courses you are qualified to deliver but also what format your courses take. Are they designed for Continuing Professional Development (CPD) or are they linked to an Awarding Organisation through an Approved Centre for delivery?
As a Trainer, it is vital to protect yourself, your clients (and potentially your employees) against a range of incidents by taking out specific indemnity insurance. Without this cover, you could end up being severely out of pocket and your professional reputation could be compromised.
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will need to ensure that suitable insurance is in place for each Trainer we accredit, and proof of policy will be requested for each application.
If you are a Trainer working across a variety of industries and companies, requests for training ‘customisation’ are common. Certain companies may require their policies to be included your delivery to help their staff contextualise their learning, whilst others may require more flexible adaptations to be made. Being reactive to these types of requests is something that companies will be looking for and will like to see.
Let us know if this is an area that you are able to work with. What flexibility is there within your delivery to make the training bespoke to a specific client?
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to understand your personal position at the time of application, are you employed by a company to solely deliver training for them, or are you an independent consultant, or both!
This is all in aid of our Accreditation & Compliance Team gaining a greater understanding of you, the individual trainer and helping to paint the picture of you as a professional.
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to ensure that you, the trainer, also keep up to date in your specialist subjects by attending your own CPD training. We will be looking to ensure that you have a process I place to keep yourself up to date with the latest development in your field, ultimately ensuring that the information you are sharing with your learners is also correct and up to date.
Do you have a policy of annual refresher training or do you have another method to ensure you are up to date?
When advertising new job roles you are entering a very competitive market place these days. People can ‘Shop Around’ and pick and choose the jobs they want to apply for. For this very reason, it is essential that you make your job advert and job role as attractive as it can be.
Many Employers do dedicate a lot of time and money into their ongoing staff development but don’t tell prospective employees about it. Ongoing investment into an individual to help them grow and develop in their career is a very attractive proposition and should be a key element of any job advert.
At The CPD Group, we put our money where our mouth is and allocate a substantial pot of funds into our own internal Continuing Professional Development (CPD). We believe that on-going employee development is a major contributor to staff retention and a positive working environment. Many of our team are enrolled in development opportunities from high quality CPD training to level 2 apprenticeships through to master’s degrees, with personal development a top priority for us
This is why our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be asking for information surrounding your training budget and your level of investment in both new and existing employees.
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be interested to learn what type of courses your employees are able to take part in once they join your team. Do you offer high quality, accredited CPD training, do you offer Apprenticeship opportunities, or do your employees enrol on regulated qualifications as part of their development?
Our team will be looking for information on the direction your organisation takes in terms of training and development.
Another area our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking for more clarity is the frequency of the personal development opportunities that you offer your employees. How often are they expected to partake in additional training? Do you provide multiple opportunities for them to take part in across the working year or is there a set list of training specific to each job role?
The team will be keen tolearn more about how often training opportunities are provided to your employees.
Another area will be looking at is how many of your current staff are enrolled on to the courses on offer through a 12-month period. Do you ensure that all youremployees take part in some form of training throughout the year, or is your strategy more targeted, or role specific?
Your answers in this area will give our Accreditation & Compliance Team a greater understanding as to what concentration of your employees go through personal development opportunities.
Who is the main lead within your organisation who determines which members of staff attend which specific development opportunities? Is there one dedicated Learning & Development member of yourteam or do you have an alternative mechanism to ensure that your employees are continually matched to development opportunities that suits their skill set or job role?
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to see how your organisation manages this process and who ultimately is responsible for making those decisions.
When taking on new employees, there is generally a dedicated period of timespent on induction training. This process is designed to help people settle into their new working environment, assisting in alleviating any form of anxiety about starting a new job as well as introducing them to their new role and duties. This process, done well, can be a game changer for an organisation. By managing this process well your employee’s first impression of your organisation will be positive and can have a significant impact on team integration and job satisfaction.
So, this is why our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to understand how your organisation manages this process and what training is involved in your induction programme to ensure the process is thorough.
When creating new job roles or recruiting for current positions, do you have a pre-scheduled Training Plan that is applicable to each specific role, or do you have a more global Training Plan for all employees? A clear and concise Training Plan can help employees gain a better understanding of what isbeing asked of them within their role and can help ensure that whatever you see as fit for their role, is known to them. It also makes employees much more confident in their role and in turn gives you confidence in your employee's abilities.
A well-structured Training Plan can lead to more success and employee development so our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to see what measures you have in place in this area.
At The CPD Group we are keen to ensure that all parties that we work with adhere to similar code of ethics when focusing on their employees. An equal and inclusive workplace culture allows all people to thrive at work, regardless of their background, identity, or circumstance. When applied to personal development opportunities it is essential that organisations consider the needs of all their employees and not a select few. Creating an inclusive and conducive work environment and investing in all employee staff development can help employees feel secure and satisfied at work. This is essential to help your organisation thrive and grow.
Our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to ensure that your organisation has made provisions to ensure that each of your employees have had their needs considered within the training and development process.
The last area that our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be focusing on is on the promotion of additional learning and development opportunities for your employees. Does your organisation have an open policy where your employees are able to source their own development opportunities and present these to your training coordinator, or do you have a more structured approach? Is there a central place where your organisation informs your employees and promotes what training is available, or is their training plan set before they take up their positions with your organisation?
This is an area that our Accreditation & Compliance Team will be looking to gain a greater understanding of how you inform and promote additional training and development opportunities to your employees.
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