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How to Motivate Certification Candidates

WBT Systems

The candidates for your association’s certification programs face the same challenges as CAE candidates: Finding time and money to earn the required continuing education credits. Dedicating mornings, nights, and weekends to reading books, understanding information, meeting with study groups, and preparing for the exam.

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The Association?s Pursuit for Relevance: What Role Do Certifications, Certificates and Micro-Credentials Play?

Blue Sky eLearn

They hold strong to their roots, of lending books and providing a space where people can come together to meet. Credentialing: This is an umbrella term, used to refer to concepts such as certification, licensure, certificate programs, micro-credentialing, accreditation, etc. I will leave that to the professionals.

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Lessons From a Certification Overhaul

Associations Now

SHRM’s shift to a new certification model points to associations’ need to better understand their members—and the people their members serve. Five years ago, the Society for Human Resource Management took a gamble: It decided to shift its certification exam from a knowledge-based model to a competency-based one.

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Opportunities for Association Certification

Smooth The Path

Some professionals feel the same way about certification exams. They wonder how valid the exam is if it: Opposes all of your real-world experience or, only covers material in the book or prep-course and experience is an actual detriment. I’m proud to have my certification.” The 40-year-old association problem.

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New Bill Would Expand 529 Savings Accounts to Cover Professional Certification

Associations Now

A new bipartisan bill would expand the use of 529 education savings accounts to cover the fees related to professional certification and credentialing programs. ASAE and the Professional Certification Coalition say it would benefit associations and the workforce. The Freedom to Invest in Tomorrow’s Workforce Act was introduced by Reps.

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Association Brain Food: 2.9.24

Reid All About it

I searched for a recipe on Eat Your Books , a cookbook index site. New Year, More Questions Breakout group topics: #1: Learning Gaps – Leading up to a certification/assessment exam, what areas of learning would you like to see improved and what areas have been beneficial for your learners to utilize? #2: More info/register.

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Rule Your Market—Blue Ocean Strategy Sidesteps the Sharks

.orgSource

Before their book was published in 2005, the authors “studied over 150 strategic moves spanning more than 30 industries over 100 years.” Move Beyond SWOT Sharon explains the book’s premise like this. The organization wanted to create a user-friendly certification process. This initiative resulted in ABMS CertLink®.