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An IRPM member's CPD Profile

Below is a profile of Miss RD, a Senior Property Manager in York who has been logging her CPD throughout 2010 on her record card - now replaced by the online logging function (see How do I log my CPD?).

Miss RD heads up a team of property managers at a firm of managing agents and she manages a portfolio herself. She has recently passed her IRPM Part 2 exam and is looking at earning the AssocRICS qualification. Eventually, RD wants to become a Chartered Surveyor. RD set herself some objective for the year:

To start a building surveying degree
To pass her IRPM Part 2 examination and encourage colleagues to do the same.
To work more closely with the chartered building surveyor at the company.
To be able to communicate better with the Italian community in York.

Part of her CPD for 2010 looks something like this:

IRPM CPD Record Card for Miss 'RD', 2010

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
15 Jan 2010	Started Italian Lessons.	Started to learn to speak, write and understand Italian.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
Ongoing - 1 hour per week	The recent influx of Italians to York means showing an appreciation of their language will help to develop good relations.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
19 Feb 2010	Read latest News on the Block and Flat Living Magazine.	Helps to keep up with latest legislative changes and see things from the clients' point of view.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
0.75 hours	There's no substitute for keeping up to speed with the latest changes affecting our industry.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
5 March 2010	Attended a seminar on Construction (Design & Management) 2007 regulations by Goddards Consulting.	The CDM is very important to ensure the health, safety and wellbeing of workers, residents and the general public. Even 'smaller' projects may need to comply with the CDM regs, to take care!
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
1 hour	CDM compliance is very important. The HSE would take a dim view of projects that were notifiable but weren't.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
6-7 March 2010	Brethertons revision workshop for Part 2 IRPM exam.	Examination technique, types of questions asked, practice questions, Q&A with solicitors and barristers.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
12 hours	Aside from being excellent preparation for the April exam, I am better equipped to deal with more complicated issues.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
21 April 2010	IRPM Part 2 Exam	How to plan my time effectively to achieve the highest possible mark.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
3 hours	Passing my IRPM part 2 with flying colours has given me renewed confidence when advising clients and my junior colleagues.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
26 May 2010	Attend in-house training session on the digital TV switchover, given by a TV aerial specialist.	As most of my buildings have communal aerials and that the leases prescribe tha the landlord needs to supply a communal tv signal to the occupiers, it is imperative that these aerials are digital compliant come autumn 2010 .
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
1.5 hours	By planning ahead, I will be able to save my clients/leaseholders money, as there will inevitably be an influx of requests to aerial companies from managing agents in the weeks before the analogue switch-off.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
6 Sept 2010	Attended in-house training seminar on the ins and outs of engineering insurance.	The difference between inspection cover and insurance cover, and the importance of both when the client's building has lifts and communal boilers.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
1.5 hours	I am now better armed to advise our clients with plant in their building.

Date	What Did I Do?	What Did I Learn?
30 Sept 2010	Attended the IRPM AGM	It was my first IRPM AGM. It has encouraged me to take more of an active interest in the Institute.
Hours	How Will This Benefit Me In The Future?
3 hours	Eventually, I would like to volunteer to help the IRPM grow and develop.

How do I log my CPD?

Through the Members Only section of the IRPM website, it’s easy to log your CPD online.

Once you have logged into the IRPM website, go to:

http://www.irpm.org.uk/members/page/cpd/

You will be able to add your activities as per the following headings:

Activity Title
Activity Date
Total Hours
What did you learn?
How will it benefit you in future?

Please be sure to save any changes you make.

An IRPM member's CPD Profile

IRPM CPD Record Card for Miss 'RD', 2010

How do I log my CPD?

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