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Continuing Professional Development
IPMA-Australia is committed to promoting Continuing Personal Development (CPD). For certificate holders, it is part of the requirement for re-certification. Below is a brief overview of CPD, for more information please see our CPD Guidance.
What is CPD?
IPMA describe CPD as a personal commitment made by a project professional to:
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• keep up to date with trends
• expand professional capabilities
• improve job performance by learning new information, skills, attitudes and behaviours using various sources and approaches and applying them in their professional career
• prepare for professional IPMA certification/re-certification
As a certificate holder individuals are expected to evidence a minimum of 35 hours of CPD per year to support re certification. Further IPMA information available from our CPD Guidance and the IPMA Website.
Why is CPD important?
It is good practice to have a CPD log at all times, for certificate holders it is part of the requirement for re-certification and must meet the following criteria:
• minimum of 35 hours annually
• project, programme or portfolio related
• more than 1 activity
• supported by proof
• explained by statements on how the CPD was applied or learnt from
What are the benefits?
Benefits of CPD include:
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ensuring your project management competencies keep pace with the current standards in project management.
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ensuring that you maintain and enhance the project management competencies you need to deliver to your customers, clients and the community.
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ensuring that you stay relevant and up to date. You get aware of the changing trends and directions in the project profession.
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allows you to continually ‘up-skill’ or ‘re-skill’ yourself, regardless of your occupation, age or educational level.
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helps you continue to make a meaningful contribution to your team. This assists you to move into new positions where you can lead, influence, coach and mentor others.
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can deliver a deeper understanding of what it means to be a project professional with a greater appreciation of the implications to the project profession.
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helps you to advance the body of knowledge and technology within your profession by providing good practices and knowledge sharing case studies.
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increases public confidence in us as project professionals and to the project profession as a whole.
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helps you to stay interested, but also interesting.
IPMA-Australia CPD Scheme
IPMA has developed a scheme with a set of activities for determining CPD hours. They consist of formal and non formal CPD activities and further discusses on the IPMA website.
IPMA-Australia will provide a template for all certificate holders if required. This can be requested by emailing us.
For more information, please read our CPD Guide.