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Is Car Maintenance CPD?

Mitchell Jamieson Smith
Today I jump started my car for the first time ever. Could this constitute CPD?


I mean, okay, it's fairly straightforward, but I did have to check how to do it, and it does involve a small amount of knowledge about batteries and electricity.
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    I think it depends how often you do it - if I was presenting broadly the same paper at several conferences, and that paper was really a bit of sales blurb for the company, then I'd feel it wasn't CPD. But if it's going to mean that (a) you need to think carefully about the work that your team has been doing to present that work in a wider context such that it is valuable for the conference attendees and (b) you don't do it very often so it's at the very least refreshing presentation skills then that sounds like CPD to me.


    The last conference paper I presented very definitely did both those, the act of pulling it together made me think very deeply about how and why our team do what we do, and the act of presenting it was...an experience. Like learning the fact that the lecture theatres in Savoy place don't, for some utterly bizarre reason, have clocks at the back - so when you're presenting you have no idea how you're doing for time!!! And that you need to check that the slides that are being projected are the slides that you expected to be projected...the IT person involved at SP was very apologetic about this, and to be fair to them I should have checked as well (and indeed I should have put a version number on the first slide). So definitely CPD, even though I have done a fair few presentations in the past! "C" for "Continuing"...


    Cheers, Andy
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    I think it depends how often you do it - if I was presenting broadly the same paper at several conferences, and that paper was really a bit of sales blurb for the company, then I'd feel it wasn't CPD. But if it's going to mean that (a) you need to think carefully about the work that your team has been doing to present that work in a wider context such that it is valuable for the conference attendees and (b) you don't do it very often so it's at the very least refreshing presentation skills then that sounds like CPD to me.


    The last conference paper I presented very definitely did both those, the act of pulling it together made me think very deeply about how and why our team do what we do, and the act of presenting it was...an experience. Like learning the fact that the lecture theatres in Savoy place don't, for some utterly bizarre reason, have clocks at the back - so when you're presenting you have no idea how you're doing for time!!! And that you need to check that the slides that are being projected are the slides that you expected to be projected...the IT person involved at SP was very apologetic about this, and to be fair to them I should have checked as well (and indeed I should have put a version number on the first slide). So definitely CPD, even though I have done a fair few presentations in the past! "C" for "Continuing"...


    Cheers, Andy
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