London, May 16th – leading pitch consultancy Win That Pitch, made a slew of strategic partnership announcements, to make them the first global full-service pitch consultancy. With new strategic partnerships including access to highly respected business associates, training accreditations, design and research support, along with a unique artificial intelligence insights offering, it is poised to help agencies, brands

Learning and Development (L&D) best practice, thought leadership and the latest learning technology to be shared at Birmingham’s NEC on 15 & 16 October.        An essential, one-stop event for anyone with high-level responsibility for learning and development, World of Learning 2019 provides the perfect platform to learn from L&D experts and to explore the latest

Continuous Professional Development represents a crucial element of modern employment, especially in the manufacturing and services sectors: whether it constitutes seminar attendance, refresher course completion or specific professional training, CPD is often a compulsory element required to perform certain mansions, onboard specific knowledge and generally advance careers. For this reason, it is desirable for CPD

Dale Howarth from the Isle of Wight Chamber of Commerce, our accredited member, has become an Ambassador with the Professional Development Consortium. The Isle of Wight County Press talk about the award below: Isle of Wight business mentor and speaker is made CPD ambassador  

Happy Monday everyone! This week we have received some questions on using ice breakers within face to face training courses and workshops. This is an area that CPD Standards doesn’t usually advise or comment on, as an icebreaker exercise normally sits within a ‘general introduction’ to a training course. However, we know that to ‘soften’

Here at the CPD Standard Office, we have been getting a ton of questions on how to sell training courses.  Having worked with hundreds of training providers, and seen best selling courses to complete flops, we have gotten to know a little bit about selling courses. Would you like to sell more courses? Take part

Senior L&D and HR professionals will gather at Birmingham’s NEC on 16 & 17 October for the year’s must-attend L&D event. Bringing together experts and innovators in the L&D community, the World of Learning Conference & Exhibition has established itself as a hub for sharing best practice, thought leadership and the latest learning technology. This

Dubious Accreditation by CPD Standards Over recent years, it has become far too easy to find a cheap and easy alternative to almost anything.  The problem now is that the cheap and easy alternative has almost become the preferred option to rigor and the real deal. So how do we illustrate this phenomenon?  The most obvious example