Presentation on the changes to CILIP Professional Registration, and some tips for managing change. Delivered on 5th February 2014 for CILIP West Midlands.

1. Changes to CILIP
Professional Registration and
tips for managing change
Jo Alcock
@joeyanne
jo.alcock@bcu.ac.uk

2. CILIP Future Skills Project Worker
May-November 2013
• Developed new assessment criteria
• Developed new submission criteria
• Produced guidance for Certification, Chartership,
Fellowship and Revalidation
• Provided training for assessors, mentor support
officers, and candidate support officers
• Developed guidance on CILIP VLE

3. Future Skills Project
• Accessibility – removing barriers and
bureaucracy
• Broadening the appeal and relevancy of CILIP
qualifications
• Clearer assessment criteria
• Alternative methods for delivering and
assessing revalidation
• Online submission
An investment in your professional future

4. Professional Knowledge and
Skills Base (PKSB)
• Succeeds & replaces the Body of Professional
Knowledge
• Can be used by individuals and employers
• Key tool in the new application process for
Professional Registration
• Replaces the PPDP/PDP
An investment in your professional future

5. An investment in your professional future
Professional
Knowledge and
Skills
Base
(PKSB)

6. Professional Registration
Knowledge and Skills
Professional practice / Reflection
Certification
• Minimal
changes
• Purpose
• PKSB
• Future review
of vocational
qualifications
• Largely
unaltered
• Direct
application
• Knowledge, Skills
and ability to apply
them
• Removal of routes
and pathways
• ‘Not where you
start it’s where you
finish’
• PKSB
Chartership Fellowship
An investment in your professional future

7. Changes to Professional
Registration
• Accessibility – Pathways removed, CILIP
Membership is only prerequisite for
application
• Accessibility – Candidates now decide what
level they want to follow
• Accessibility – Timescales completely removed
• New assessment criteria implemented
An investment in your professional future

8. Certification Chartership Fellowship
Personal
performance
Identified areas for
improvement in their
personal performance and
undertaken activities to
develop skills and enhance
knowledge
Identified areas for
improvement in their personal
performance, undertaken
activities to develop skills,
applied these in practice, and
reflected on the process and
outcomes
Identified areas for improvement
in their personal performance,
undertaken activities to develop
skills, applied these in practice,
and reflected on the process and
outcomes
Organisational
context
Considered the
organisational context of
their service and examined
their role within the
organisation
Examined the organisational
context of their service,
evaluated service performance,
shown the ability to implement
or recommend improvement,
and reflected on actual or
desired outcomes
Examined the organisational
context of their work and
evidenced substantial
achievement in professional
practice
Wider
professional
context
Enhanced their knowledge
of information services in
order to understand the
wider professional context
within which they work
Enhanced their knowledge of
the wider professional context
and reflected on areas of
current interest
Established their commitment to,
and enhanced their knowledge of,
the information professions in
order to have made a significant
contribution to all or part of the
profession(s)
An investment in your professional future

9. Professional Registration
• PKSB self assessment introduced
• All levels now must have a mentor
• Evaluative statement 1,000 words for all
levels
• Online submission using new CILIP Virtual
Learning Environment (VLE)
• Assessors can change assessment level
• Charges to remain the same, no charge for
revalidation
An investment in your professional future

10. Revalidation
• Demonstrates ongoing commitment to
professional development
• Applicable to all levels of Professional
Registration
• Assessed against criteria for level being
revalidated
• 20 hours of professional development
• 250 word reflective statement
• Recommended to complete on annual basis
An investment in your professional future

11. Tips for managing change
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12. Changes to communicate
2005 REGULATIONS 2013 REGULATIONS
Qualifications Professional Registration
Entry restrictions No entry restrictions
Postal submission Online submission
Portfolio-based revalidation Input-based revalidation

13. Stakeholder engagement
All stakeholders who will be impacted by change.
Those who will be impacted directly and indirectly.
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14. Informed in early stages
If possible, involved in early decisions.
If not possible, need to be informed of changes early in process.
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15. Regular communication
Updates on progress and any new developments or decisions.
Probably more often than you think!
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16. Transparency
Willing to answer questions honestly.
Open about both the decisions that have been made and the processes involved.
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17. Kotter's Eight Step Change
Process of Successful Change
1. Create a sense of urgency
2. Pull together the guiding team
3. Develop the change vision and strategy
4. Communicate for understanding and buy in
5. Empower others to act
6. Produce short-term wins
7. Don't let up
8. Make it stick

18. Any questions?
Jo Alcock
@joeyanne
jo.alcock@bcu.ac.uk