b'13 Continuing ProfessionalTWAVES 14Corporate Partner User Guide Development (CPD) Training Corporate Partner User GuideIncludes a wide variety of professional and technical topics delivered through various methods.CPD refers to the maintenance and development of knowledge and skills to ensure your employees remain competent as professional engineers or technicians.Planning, recording and reviewing CPD can be done easily via our online ProfessionalWork Experience Development tool, Career Manager. Keeping on top of their CPD will help your engineers andIncludes learning new skills and knowledge through job technicians to achieve their goals, keep up with changing technology, achieve recognition,shadowing, coaching, managing others, secondment, research, develop skills and demonstrate commitment to the profession. project work etc.When it comes to undertaking your CPD, your employees may be unsure of the different types of activities that count. Although we accept CPD activity from any source, we provide a wide range of products to assist with CPD, and have created the TWAVES acronym to help you remember what counts. Academic Study Additionally, every year a random sample of TMIET, MIET and FIET Members are selected andIncludes formal study programmes such as a Masters degreeasked to provide a CPD record for review as part of our mandatory CPD Audit. It is therefore(e.g. MEng, MSc), PhD/Doctorate, Bachelors degree (e.g. BEng, not only best practice to stay up to date with recording CPD it will mean you can submitBSc), HND, HNC, City and Guilds, NVQ, ONC, OND, etc.easily should you be called as part of this audit.Members who become professionally registered are also obliged to follow the Engineering Councils CPD Code. VolunteeringIncludes professional body volunteering roles e.g. mentoring, Start the conversation today, Professional Registration advisor/assessor/interviewer, committee roles, speak to your account managerlocal network roles, etc. It may also include other volunteer roles that support the development of soft skills/financial/leadership skills.Events and Seminars Includes conferences, networking events, technical visits, exhibitions, seminars, webinars, lectures etc.Self-Study Includes reading books, journals and articles, research through internet searches and digital information sources, online technical communities and discussion forums.To learn more about CPD at the IET, visit:theiet.org/cpdStart the conversation at partnerships@theiet.org'