News: Continuous Professional Development

Continuous Professional Development

All Energy Assessors are required to undertake a minimum of 10-hours each year (with an
additional 5-hours for added accreditation streams). Quidos checks that you have completed
these CPD hours on the annual anniversary of your initial accreditation. With this in mind, it is
useful to remind Assessors what CPD actually is and the importance of completion.

What is CPD?

Continuous Professional Development (CPD) can be defined as the systematic maintenance,
improvement, and broadening of knowledge, skills or personal qualities which are necessary
to carry out your professional and technical duties.

In brief, this can be any activity that helps you develop your expertise as an Energy Assessor,
achieve in producing a consistent and professional standard of work, and engage with your
colleagues and other industry professionals in new and effective ways.

Why is CPD important?

CPD provides an individual with the ability to demonstrate they can take on new challenges and
to manage their own professional growth. Maintaining your contemporary competency will
enable you to adapt easier to Industry changes, and will help distinguish yourself from the
competition.

Learning is a good habit that anyone can get into, and can help Energy Assessors to focus on
any gaps in their knowledge and skills. As much as we would like to disagree, nobody is perfect
and there is always something more that an Energy Assessor can learn. By acknowledging and
targeting weaknesses, you can explore suitable opportunities to improve.

CPD should always be about setting and maintaining a standard for yourself and your business.
Instead of a ‘race to the bottom’ in terms of quality, ensuring considered continual development
will help raise the bar for all Energy Assessors.

To read more about the Quidos CPD Requirements, we have put together a handbook to
outline what sort of CPD activities you can undertake throughout the year and tying these with
the annual goals you intend to set yourself. This handbook can be found in the iQ-Energy
Control Panel, or download your copy by CLICKING HERE