Association for Coaching's (AC) Recognition of Continuous Professional Development Hours

Association for Coaching continuous professional development Hours Scheme logo The Association for Coaching's (AC) continuous professional development Hours Scheme is designed to recognize the hours for ongoing professional development.

This Scheme is specially created for practitioners and Leader Coaches and organizations offering ongoing learning and development. This allows their participants evidence of hours taken of ongoing professional development. This may apply to courses, workshops, certifications, webinars and events which can be used towards CPD elements of AC accreditation and other related programmes.

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Benefits

Training and professional development organizations will have their courses, webinars and learning modules validated with AC CPD hours. This provides an additional level of professional assurance and credibility of their services and demonstrates a focus on excellence.
All organizations will receive an editable AC CPD Hours Scheme certificate that they can provide to their participants.
Organizations will be provided with:-
- An AC CPD Scheme certificate to reflect the validated hours
- A quality assurance Mark to show that they are part of the AC CPD Hours Scheme and to validate the CPD hours represented by the course.
- Additionally, organizations will receive a promotional CPD Hours Scheme Mark to use within their marketing materials and website.

What is ongoing professional development?

Ongoing Professional Development is training in skills that contribute to an individual’s professional development (e.g. personal development, coaching tools, ongoing coach training, or assessments, practice building, or other material that falls outside the AC’s Coaching Competencies).

Who can apply?

The CPD Hours Scheme is for organizations that demonstrate their courses contribute to Coaches' ongoing professional development. Organizations do not need to be members of the AC in order to qualify.

Examples of organizations who may wish to purchase this CPD Hours Scheme include:

AC Corporate and Organizational Members
Tools and Profiling Providers
Coaching Providers – (offering CPD and ongoing learning)
HR / L&D internal training
Corporates - learning development curriculum
Training Providers – short courses.

Application fees

	Programme Hours	Member Price*	Non-Member Price*
CPD Track 1	1-16	£80	£100
CPD Track 2	17-32	£140	£200
CPD Track 3	33-55	£200	£300
CPD Track 4	56+	£250	£350
Bulk Package Price: 20% off for 2+ courses, 30% off for 5+ courses and 40% off for 10+ courses

*Plus applicable VAT at the prevailing rates.

Qualifying organizations can apply for each of their courses they would like to be a part of the AC CPD Hours Scheme, valid for a period of one year from the approval date.

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