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As an L&D Practitioner you will be striving to provide the most effective service possible:

- How can you evidence your competence?

- How can you elevate your credibility within the organisation?

- How can you benchmark yourself to best-practice?

- How are you aligning learning to business needs?

PROFESSIONALISING L&D THROUGH ACCREDITATION

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Accreditation is defined, in the context of education, as being ‘certified or guaranteed as meeting required standards.’

All TAP courses are built around a set of competencies that are aligned to

best-practice TAP L&D Standards. These competencies and standards

are available to view on request.

What is ‘Accreditation’?

Historically, training has not generally been regarded as a profession but as something that almost anyone with subject matter knowledge can do.

As a result, many trainers have received little

or no professional skills development. Others have only attended internal non-accredited train the trainer courses. TAP Qualifications bridge these gaps as they are recognised throughout the UK.

THE BENEFITS TO YOU OF BEING ACCREDITED

w Benchmarks your service delivery to best-practice

w Builds your learners’ trust and engagement

w Enables a consistent approach for all your learning interventions

w Enables you to keep abreast of new learning technologies and techniques

w Heightens your personal ‘brand’ within the business

w Increases your self-confidence

w Leverages specialist external expertise to enhance your L&D skills

There are many value-added benefits to you in attaining reputable skills-based qualifications:

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YOUR MEMBERSHIP OF THE TAP ACADEMYMembership of the TAP Academy is open

to all L&D Practitioners who hold a valid, skills-based TAP certificate or diploma

and who have agreed to comply with the TAP L&D Academy’s Code of

Professional Conduct. There are two levels; Certified L&D Practitioners hold one or more TAP Certificates but not yet a TAP Diploma. Accredited L&D Professionals hold a TAP Diploma. Membership is free.

Certification as a TAP-Certified L&D Practitioner

All holders of one or more skills-based TAP Certificates but not yet a TAP Diploma, and who have agreed to comply with the Academy’s Code of Professional Conduct, are

awarded a TAP lapel pin bearing the words ‘Certified TAP L&D Practitioner’. They receive a personal Record of Achievement in which to record their TAP Qualifications and are recognised by TAP.cert post-nominal letters.

Certification as a TAP-Accredited L&D Professional

Applicants for registration as a TAP-accredited L&D

Professional must hold a valid TAP Diploma and agree to comply

with the TAP L&D Academy’s Code of Professional Conduct. They are recognised by TAP.dip post-nominal letters.

THE BENEFITS OF TAP ACADEMY MEMBERSHIPYou may display the relevant insignia as

provided by The Training Foundation on your email signature, business cards, internal or external documentation and, if applicable, website.

You will also receive:

w Access to the Facebook and LinkedIn TAP Professionals Groups

w Post course resources to promote learning reinforcement

Continue with your TAP journey now you are Certified

As you’ll see from the TAP Skills Qualifications Framework, there is an extensive range of relevant courses and workshops available for your continuing professional development. Every year, the range of skills needed by today’s L&D Professional expands, and the team at

The Training Foundation is quick to respond to developing trends with new additions to the Framework.

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As with all professions, the need for Continuous

Professional Development is paramount in an

environment where business needs, rapidly

shifting learner demographics and technology

advancements are the norm. As with the proverb

that ‘a shoemaker’s children go barefoot’, the

skills of L&D professionals are often last to

receive the attention they deserve.

For L&D professionals the TAP Skills Qualifications

Framework offers a wide range of skills-based,

role-relevant modules. The central principle is

‘train when skills are needed’. This allows you to

apply what’s been learned straight away on return

to work, a critical factor in developing your skills in

order to deliver effective transfer of learning.

Just as critical is the need to ensure that if you are

a subject matter expert who delivers occasionally,

you also develop the right skills to deliver

effective transfer of learning. As time progresses,

you may also choose to upgrade to a professional

TAP certificate.

Learning transfer is only effective when we create

opportunities to apply it. Make the time to discuss

each course with your manager; explore how you

will apply what you have learned and what your

next learning step will be.

Record of Achievement

your passport to excellence

Continuous Professional Development Record

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RECERTIFICATIONL&D professionals will recognise the fact that immediately following the attainment of new skills, those skills will begin to decay over time. The speed of decay will depend on a number of factors, including the extent to which the individual is motivated to use them; has the opportunity to use them; and is coached, observed and developed in the skill reinforcing them. We therefore recommend that organisations consider two critical factors in supporting trainers in ‘maintaining’ skills and ‘developing mastery’ over time:

1. Specifically, for design and delivery programmes, delegates are advised to consider attending a recertification event to ‘sharpen the saw’ (or submit their recertification online – see our website for details). We will invite delegates to attend

at three-yearly intervals.

2. Consider the development of an appropriate number of TAP Design and/or Delivery Assessors, who are authorised to recertify and coach TAP-trained practitioners and professionals against our robust methodologies.

3. We can arrange formal delivery skills assessment days onsite by a TAP Trainer, immediately post-training, to ensure delegates begin to develop ‘mastery’.

CODE OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT FOR THE TAP L&D ACADEMY This Code of Conduct encompasses the personal standards of behaviour expected of

TAP Academy members.

In positions of considerable influence through the roles they

fulfil, L&D Professionals have a responsibility to utilise their

specialist knowledge and skills in an ethically responsible manner.

The three core elements of the Code are Care, Integrity and Competence. The following behavioural standards are expected of all TAP Academy members regardless of their position.

CARE

INTEGRITY

COMPETENCE

- seek to engage the hearts and minds of their audience, inspiring positive

contributions and outcomes

- work to establish and maintain an environment of mutual trust and respect,

accommodating the uniqueness, individuality and needs of their audience

- act with honesty and integrity in all aspects of their work, declining involvement

with any activity that would compromise their professional standing

- uphold the reputation of the Profession, their organisation and the TAP Academy

through their conduct

- continually review and improve the quality of their professional practice by

maintaining the currency of both their subject expertise and their professional skills

- inform their professional judgement and practice by keeping up to date with current

learning theories and emerging trends in L&D, technology and pedagogy