Hosting in-house CPD days
Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 8:41 am
If you’re unsure of the answer, then take a step back to work out what the overarching goal of this activity is. Does it align with your club’s objectives? If not, it needs to be reconsidered.
In addition, be mindful that an entirely ad-hoc approach to training is not going to result in success for your club. You need to instead create a business plan, in which you embed your CPD programme. For example, deciding that in a year’s time, you’d like to be able to offer training in a new discipline or level. In order to achieve that goal, X members of your coaching staff need to attend X courses.
As we mentioned earlier, CPD doesn’t always have greece rcs data to take the route of formal – often expensive – training courses. Your employees have a wealth of knowledge between them, so capitalise on this.
One great way to do this is by hosting in-house CPD days. Alongside practical or technical training and development sessions, you could also run some activities to highlight what development is needed within your club. For example:
Anonymous Q&A – ask your team to write their questions for management on a piece of paper and drop them into a box. These could be business-related or coaching-related. You can then pull these out one-by-one, providing honest answers to the group as a whole
Thought-sharing – split your team into groups, and provide each with a topic. For example ‘senior leadership’. Ask them to write down what their expectations are for that group – is there anything currently missing? Or should be done differently?
Both of these exercises create an open, non-judgemental environment for the day. And they also help to establish what CPD is required – whether that’s due to reoccurring coaching-related questions during the Q&A, or concerns around leadership competency.
In addition, be mindful that an entirely ad-hoc approach to training is not going to result in success for your club. You need to instead create a business plan, in which you embed your CPD programme. For example, deciding that in a year’s time, you’d like to be able to offer training in a new discipline or level. In order to achieve that goal, X members of your coaching staff need to attend X courses.
As we mentioned earlier, CPD doesn’t always have greece rcs data to take the route of formal – often expensive – training courses. Your employees have a wealth of knowledge between them, so capitalise on this.
One great way to do this is by hosting in-house CPD days. Alongside practical or technical training and development sessions, you could also run some activities to highlight what development is needed within your club. For example:
Anonymous Q&A – ask your team to write their questions for management on a piece of paper and drop them into a box. These could be business-related or coaching-related. You can then pull these out one-by-one, providing honest answers to the group as a whole
Thought-sharing – split your team into groups, and provide each with a topic. For example ‘senior leadership’. Ask them to write down what their expectations are for that group – is there anything currently missing? Or should be done differently?
Both of these exercises create an open, non-judgemental environment for the day. And they also help to establish what CPD is required – whether that’s due to reoccurring coaching-related questions during the Q&A, or concerns around leadership competency.