CPD: Improving communications skills
Part of anyone’s Continuing Professional Development (CPD) pro- gram is identifying areas in which addi- tional courses or training are needed. The ability to clearly and effectively com- municate one’s ideas is a very important professional skill. Public speaking is a communications area that makes many folks uncomfortable. But we need to orally communicate with colleagues, cli- ents, and others. Effective public speak-
ing involves both the skills one can learn in a speech class and with practice in speaking before others. Toastmasters International (
www.toastmasters.org) is a nonprofit organization devoted to helping members improve their com- munication, public speaking, and leadership skills. Toastmasters clubs are located worldwide. If you wish to improve your public speaking skills, give Toastmasters a try. The time you spend at Toastmasters or a similar organiza- tion qualifies as CPD.
PROFESSIONAL ETHICS AND PRACTICES - COLUMN 164 CPD and NLGs
Two important papers were included the Jul/Aug/Sep TPG and were present- ed at the Annual Meeting in Nashville. They are AIPG’s Continuing Professional Development Program by David Abbott, CPG, and AIPG Introduces New Member Category “Nationally Licensed Geologist” by Douglas Bartlett, CPG, and Adam Heft, CPG. Both papers describe new programs that will affect CPGs and are included on the Ethics Reprint CD. If you missed them in the last issue, go back and read them.
Geologic Ethics & Professional Practices is now available on CD
This CD is a collection of articles, columns, letters to the editor, and other material addressing professional ethics and general issues of professional geologic practice that were printed in The Professional Geologist. It includes an electronic version of the now out-of-print Geologic Ethics and Professional Practices 1987-1997, AIPG Reprint Series #1. The intent of this CD is collection of this material in a single place so that the issues and questions raised by the material may be more conveniently studied. The intended ‘students’ of this CD include everyone interested in the topic, from the new student of geology to professors emeritus, working geologists, retired geologists, and those interested in the geologic profession.
AIPG members will be able to update their copy of this CD by regularly downloading
the pe&p index.xls file from the
www.aipg.org under “Ethics” and by downloading the electronic version of The Professional Geologist from the members only area of the AIPG website. The cost of the CD is $25 for members, $35 for non-members, $15 for student members and $18 for non-member students, plus shipping and handling. To order go to
www.aipg.org.
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