I work with businesses or individuals interested in developing their professional skills. I understand how important it is to utilise your CPD time with professional growth.

Critical thinking involves questioning rather than simply accepting information that you hear or read.

It enables you to identify different points of view, put together arguments, and evaluate the arguments made by others.

Each session is 60 - 90 minutes long (dependant on numbers of participants) and online. I will be working in my office and the participant needs to have a space to work in which they can both listen and talk. The participant must have something to make notes on, either paper, a notebook or tablet for instance. I will email a booklet providing notes which the participant can then use to fully understand and replicate what they learnt in the session.

CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development and it is about how you manage your own development on an ongoing basis.

Training or development – what’s the difference?

These terms are often used interchangeably, though there is a distinction. As a rule of thumb, training is formal and linear. It’s involved with learning how to do something specific, relating to skill and competence. Training can be as simple as using a PC application and as complex as learning how to be a pilot. Development is often informal and has a wider application, giving you the tools to do a range of things and relating to capability and competency. It involves progression from basic know-how to more advanced, mature or complex understanding.  Alternatively, it can be about widening your range of transferable skills like leadership, managing projects or organising information.

The session I offer covers both training and development. Training in critical thinking questions and a variety of brainstorming skills. Development of your management skills in holding team meetings.