Motorsport Specific CPD Courses

CPD is a huge, underleveraged benefit for both employers and employees in any industry. But what is it and how does it work in motorsport? Read on to find out how it can work for you, your career prospects or your business….

What is CPD?

Continuing Professional Development, or CPD, is a term used to describe learning activities carried out to improve your knowledge, skills and ability to perform your job function. Whether you are a 21-year-old graduate or 61-year-old wannabe retiree, none of you will know all there is to know about your job and nor should you. But without CPD you never will. This is how you get left behind in the career stakes, especially in motorsport which relies so heavily on innovation and progression.

CPD courses can be anything from a short online course to a full Master’s or PhD. Anything where you continue your learning and develop new skills relevant to your career.

CPD is critical to the motorsport industry’s future – in technological terms as well as for the advancement of governance, ethics and sustainability, all of which will futureproof the sport. Can any of us truly say that we know as much as we need to know to complete our job function to the absolute best of our capability? Chances are it’s a long time since you got your last qualification and despite what you learn on the job, changes in any business are inevitable. But are you keeping up? Are your skills going to stop the next generation from snapping at your heels and overtaking you on the career ladder??CPD helps you to keep your industry knowledge up-to-date and advance your skills without having to return to college or university full time. Continuing Professional Development courses are often small bite-sized chunks which allow you to hone the skills that you want to develop, rather than study a course which may end up going over things you’re already proficient at.

For some of us, there’s nothing worse than feeling out of our depth. For others, there’s an in-built need to stay ahead of the curve, to keep on learning. CPD is a sure-fire way to protect your future by learning something which helps you in the course of your day-to-day job or future career. If you’re lacking in any skills which you feel are holding you back you can almost guarantee that there’s a CPD course for it! Leadership, languages, applied maths, HR, PR – the list is endless!?

Even if you’re not hunting that next promotion, there’s bound to be some way in which you can improve your understanding of the industry or learn something which will make your job easier. Perhaps you lack IT skills or learning another language would help you communicate with suppliers abroad? That would all be classed as CPD. It can also be classed as CPD if you decide to learn more about industry specific software, and most software development programmes have online tutorials to help you get to grips with the latest version and new applications.?

CPD can help you learn more and earn more and most employers will let you have time out of your working day to complete it.?

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