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Help learning continue after the session ends.
A strong learning experience does more than transfer information. It gives learners something they can take into their own context.
The closing question
Not only: “What did you learn?”
But also: “What will you do differently because of it?”
A strong session gives learners something they can take into their own context.
Providers can strengthen that connection by encouraging application planning, workplace experimentation, reflection, follow-up activities and evidence of change.
Within this approach, CPD is a foundation rather than an endpoint. It can help people maintain knowledge, build new skills, respond to change and prepare for new responsibilities — and then the work of application begins.
Keep it honest
Completing CPD does not automatically guarantee impact. CPD creates the potential for impact. What follows depends on the opportunity for application, the professional context, implementation quality, available resources and the organisational environment.
Five questions
A better activity structure.
A meaningful development activity can be examined through five simple questions. Asking them at the end of a session creates a connection between learning and what comes next.
01
What?
What did I learn?
02
Why?
Why did I need to learn it?
03
How?
How did I develop this knowledge or skill?
04
Apply?
Where can I apply what I learned?
05
Expected impact?
What improvement or change could this development contribute to?
Five questions that give a session somewhere to go.
The cycle you are feeding
Learning creates potential. Application gives it purpose.
Learn
Build knowledge, skills and understanding.
Apply
Use that capability in a real professional context.
Improve
Change a practice, behaviour, process or approach.
Evidence
Understand what happened and how you know.
Impact
Recognise the difference created.
Reflect
Learn from the outcome and decide what comes next.
Professional growth does not stop at the bottom of this sequence. It begins again.
Give your learners somewhere to go.
Encourage application planning, workplace experimentation, reflection, follow-up activities and evidence of change.