Next Generation Technology for Continuing Professional Development Education and Credits

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In today’s highly competitive marketplace, every available opportunity for professionals and businesses to gain a competitive advantage is explored. Next generation technology for online learning as an option for continuing professional development is the front-runner. Offering greater flexibility, interactive experience, and engagement during off-revenue-generating hours to learn new skills and hone acquired skills is critical to a professional’s long-term strategy for career advancement.

Universal centralized access to online continuing professional development education allows talented designated and non-designated professionals to become noticed and allows great companies to be sustainable.   As a result, a more skilled labor force of professionals committed to high-impact, quality learning opportunities from the best industry experts is created. With a very low barrier to entry, all that is required is an Internet connection to access these great learning experiences. (Capitalization of Internet is optional but readily accepted and commonly used in the U.S.)

Employers are looking for employee engagement options and leaders who excel in communication with exceptional problem-solving skills above the accumulation of knowledge. According to Gallup, only 30% of the workforce is highly engaged and passionate about their work. Yet, expanding employee engagement is a critical business driver for productivity (22% higher for a highly engaged workforce) and higher retention rates (25% higher.)

Corporate leaders are heavily investing in learning and workplace technologies to drive engagement and collaboration. In a recent E-learning User Study, 72.8% of respondents reported that “Improving Employee Engagement” was the top business driver for learning investments. “Increasing Collaboration within Learning” (51.5%) and “Across the Enterprise” (48.5%) followed closely behind.

Professionals who have mandatory recertification requirements as designated professionals for Continuing Professional Development Education, the main driving force behind their online learning investments, are looking for opportunities for learning that are content-rich with experiences that are engaging as a substantial return on the investment and the first-class experience. Long gone are the days of the boring and lame, video-only driven learning. Gone are hours of death by PowerPoint and monotone instruction.

After working with a multitude of professional business associations across North America who have mandatory continuing education learning requirements, my company, XTRAcredits, put together a standard checklist of what an immersive continuing professional development learning experience should harness:

1. State-of-the-art knowledge from the world’s top performance experts
2. A multisensory environment
3. Opportunity for repetition
4. Options for professionals to learn at their own pace
5. Real-time feedback throughout the experience
6. Gamification elements to increase engagement and make it fun
7. Mandatory assessment of learning

Professionals of every age can engage in flexible, focused learning at their own time, pace, and location for an ideal setting for businesses and entrepreneurs of every kind when engaging in Continuing Professional Development Education.

Regardless of the training that you choose from, Jeffrey Gitomer, Grant Cardone, Shep Hyken, Tom Hopkins, Dr. Tony Alessandra, or Patricia Fripp, these are the essential components for gaining competitive advantages: availability, quality, and opportunity in a centralized location for employers, professionals, and professional business associations to access continuing professional development courses and resources.

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