Professional Development

One of the most effective ways to attract and develop competent staff is to encourage and support professional development. There’s a whole range of courses and general professional development to make sure you and your staff stay at the top of the game. It’s not just about legislation, it can keep staff up to date with new technology or business opportunities for instance.

Maintaining, improving and broadening knowledge and skills in this way has lots of benefits:

• You have a better skilled and more efficient workforce
• You will attract high calibre staff and keep them
• Good professional development policies can provide the most cost effective means of providing training, particularly if carried out in partnership with institutions
• Your staff will have the skills to react to a changing profession more readily

Find out more

A number of professional institutions in the sector have comprehensive information on how to support staff with professional development or how to get involved yourself:

CIBSE Professional Development Information

Professional Development - How 2 - a partnership of professional institutions including the Institution of Engineering & Technology, Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Royal Aeronautical Society and the Institute of Physics.