Building Professional Confidence: The Key to Sustainable Quality
Fees
Member Rate £89.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £139.00 + VAT
Overview
Sustainable quality isn't achieved simply by delivering more CPD or increasing quality monitoring. It develops when leaders align workforce capability, professional confidence, organisational expectations and opportunities to improve everyday practice.
Apprenticeship providers invest considerable time in professional development, quality assurance and improvement planning. Yet these activities do not automatically lead to consistent delivery or better outcomes for apprentices.
This interactive webinar explores professional confidence as an organisational quality issue, rather than simply an individual development need.
It considers how leaders can recognise gaps in confidence, competence and professional judgement; connect curriculum leadership, quality assurance and workforce development; and establish clearer ways of evaluating whether support is changing practice.
The focus is on moving beyond evidence of activity towards evidence of impact: what people can now do differently, how consistently they apply their learning, and what difference this makes to apprentices' experiences, participation and progress.
Attendees will leave with practical questions to help them review how effectively their organisation identifies, develops and sustains professional capability.
What you will learn
By the end of this session, you’ll be able to:
- Recognise the relationship between professional confidence, competence, judgement and sustainable quality.
- Identify where workforce capability gaps may be affecting consistency in apprenticeship delivery.
Examine how leadership, curriculum, quality assurance and workforce development can work together more effectively. - Consider how targeted professional development, feedback and opportunities for application support improved practice.
- Identify practical ways to evaluate changes in professional practice and their contribution to apprentice experience and outcomes.
Agenda
10:00–10:10 Welcome, context and opening poll
10:10–10:25 Professional confidence, competence and sustainable quality
10:25–10:40 Recognising workforce capability gaps
10:40–10:55 Connecting leadership, curriculum, QA and workforce development
10:55–11:10 From CPD activity to changed professional practice
11:10–11:20 Evaluating impact and identifying improvement priorities
11:20–11:30 Reflection, questions and next steps
Who should attend?
This webinar is particularly relevant to:
- Senior leaders and managers responsible for quality improvement and organisational performance.
- Quality assurance and quality improvement managers.
- Curriculum and programme leaders.
- Teaching, learning and assessment managers.
- Staff development and workforce development leads.
It will be valuable to apprenticeship providers seeking a more connected and evidence-informed approach to professional capability and sustainable quality improvement.
Resources
- A practical organisational capability and professional confidence reflection tool, including prompts to evaluate changes in practice and impact.
- A curated list of relevant evidence and further reading to support leadership reflection and workforce development.
Facilitator
Christine Edwards QTLS, Creating Excellence
Christine has a wide occupational background and has held key roles within apprenticeship provision since 2003. Her knowledge is comprehensive across all aspects of the operational and quality functions and she has an in depth understanding of Ofsted inspection requirements. She is passionate about ensuring that maths and English teaching and support is effectively integrated and value recognised within all training.
Secure your place!
Fees
Member Rate £89.00 + VAT
Non Member Rate £139.00 + VAT
If you register but are unable to attend, we will send you a copy of the recording after the webinar has taken place.
Building Professional Confidence: The Key to Sustainable Quality
Connecting workforce capability, leadership and evidence of impact.
