Workforce Development Certification: The CDWP

Crosswalk Between CEUonestop.com Courses
and the CDWP Competencies

The National Association of Workforce Development Professionals (NAWDP) offers the credential called Certified Workforce Development Professional (CDWP). Rigorous standards are applied to receive this certification.

Once attained, the credential must be renewed every three years to remain valid. A major stipulation to maintain the certification is to have 60 hours of documented professional development every three years.

Recently the NAWDP reviewed the online continuing education courses of CEUonestop.com and crosswalked them to the CDWP competencies.  The crosswalk is represented below.  Where you see a checkmark, the NAWDP stipulates that the course meets the professional development competency for recertification.

When a person successfully completes one of the online courses, a certificate of completion is offered as documentation for your recertification. The CEUonestop.com courses are verified by the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) as meeting their requirements as well for certifications such as the Board Certified Coach, Global Career Development Facilitator, Licensed Professional Counselor, Nationally Certified Counselor, Distance Career Counselor, Distance Career Facilitator, and others.

For more information on CWDP recertification, visit http://www.nawdp.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Recertification_Requirements&Template=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm&ContentID=5612

For other crosswalks see 

https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/continuing-education-to-maintain-your-ncda-designations/

https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2015/03/15/iaevg-competencies/

https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/gcdf-certification/

https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/board-certified-coach/

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Janet E. Wall, EdD, MCDP, CDFI, SMMS, NCDA Fellow, is a career development professional in Arlington, Virginia. She is committed to the continuing education of all career counselors, coaches and specialists by providing online courses and webinars through http://www.CEUonestop.com. She was the developer of the ASVAB Career Exploration Program for the Department of Defense, and was recently named a Fellow of the National Career Development Association. She is co-author of the Ability Explorer published by JIST.

Continuing Education to Maintain Your NCDA Designations

The National Career Development Association (NCDA) recently instituted new designations for its members. These designations include Master Career Counselor, Career Counselor, Master Career Specialist, Career Specialist, and Scholars.  The first 4 designations require 30 hours of continuing education every five years to maintain the designation. 

http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sp/membership_categories#designations

Where can you get those hours of continuing education?  NCDA offers conferences, workshops, and webinars to assist in accumulating those hours.

CEUonestop.com, an award winning professional development site, was created to provide high quality, low hassle professional development to satisfy the requirements of various certifications in career development.

Recently the online courses http://ceuonestop.com/wp/courses/ from CEUonestop.com were compared to the NCDA Career Counseling Competencies http://associationdatabase.com/aws/NCDA/pt/sd/news_article/37798/_self/layout_ccmsearch/true.

In brief, the competencies include:

• Career Development Theory: Theory base and knowledge considered essential for professionals engaging in career counseling and development.
• Individual and Group Counseling Skills: Individual and group counseling competencies considered essential for effective career counseling.
• Individual/Group Assessment: Individual/group assessment skills considered essential for professionals engaging in career counseling.
• Information/Resources: Information/resource base and knowledge essential for professionals engaging in career counseling.
• Program Promotion, Management and Implementation: Skills necessary to develop, plan, implement, and manage comprehensive career development programs in a variety of settings.
• Coaching, Consultation, and Performance Improvement: Knowledge and skills considered essential in enabling individuals and organizations to impact effectively upon the career counseling and development process.
• Diverse Populations: Knowledge and skills considered essential in providing career counseling and development processes to diverse populations.
• Supervision: Knowledge and skills considered essential in critically evaluating counselor performance, maintaining and improving professional skills, and seeking assistance for others when needed in career counseling.
• Ethical/Legal Issues: Information base and knowledge essential for the ethical and legal practice of career counseling.
• Research/Evaluation: Knowledge and skills considered essential in understanding and conducting research and evaluation in career counseling and development.
• Technology: Knowledge and skills considered essential in using technology to assist individuals with career planning.

The chart below shows the crosswalk between the online courses and the NCDA competencies.

When acquiring your continuing education credits, you can refer to this chart to be sure your continuing education relates to NCDA’s counselor competencies.

CEUonestop also has webinars that relate to the competencies as well. www.ceuonestop.com/wp/webinars. These offerings change frequently.

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https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2015/01/09/gcdf-certification/

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https://careerdevelopmentmusings.wordpress.com/2014/12/12/board-certified-coach/ 

Maintaining Your GCDF Certification

What an accomplishment!  You completed the career development facilitator certification program and applied for the Global Career Development Facilitator certification from the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE). You have finished, so pat yourself on the back. You now have upgraded skills, knowledge and resources to help your students and clients.

Keeping your certification active requires some continuing education.

The CCE requires 75 hours of continuing education every five years to maintain your certification. These hours must be directly related to one or more of the GCDF competencies.

You can obtain those 75 hours by attending conferences, participating in workshops, and taking advantage of various online courses and webinars offered by www.CEUonestop.com. At some point you may be audited and asked to verify your participation in the professional development activities you have enjoyed and the content may be examined to see if it relates to the competencies.

CEUonestop.com offers you the opportunity to gain your required clock hours without the hassle of travel, traffic, interrupted schedule, or great expense. CEUonestop courses are all related to one or more of the GCDF competencies.

In a recent review of the online courses, the following crosswalk of the courses to the GCDF competencies was developed. 

You can be confident that the courses will count toward your recertification.  A certificate of completion with the related clock hours is provided to you as evidence that you participated in the training. The courses adhere to the National Board of Certified Counselors (NBCC) criteria for clock hours so they relate to other certifications as well. Example are the Board Certified Coach, the Nationally Certified Counselor, the Licensed Professional Counselor, and others.

Board Certified Coach Continuing Education

Maintaining Your Board Certified Coach Certification

If you have obtained the certification from the Center for Credentialing and Education (CCE) called the Board Certified Coach (BCC) then you are aware of the fact that you must obtain 100 hours of continuing education related to the BCC competencies every 5 years.

CCE suggests that when deciding to obtain your continuing education that you consider the following questions:

• Does the content of the activity fall into one or more of the six BCC competencies?
• Is the activity geared to coaching?
• Does the activity enhance my role as a coach?
• Am I able to interact with the instructor/facilitator during or after the session?
• Will the activity be completed during my current five-year certification period?
• Does the instructor/facilitator have formal education, expertise or credentialing in the relevant BCC competency areas?

Working with the guidance of CCE, the chart below shows the relationship of the online, self-paced courses in career development from CEUonestop.com to the BCC competencies. The upshot is that these courses can count toward your recertification.  Further, if you hold the career development specialty designation, CCE requires that 18 of your 100 hours must be taken in this specialty.

The courses are offered through CEUonestop.com, an NBCC approved continuing educator provider in career development.  Visit the website to see more details about the courses, the instructional objectives, and the qualifications of our authors.

More details on the BCC competencies are listed below.

Board Certified Coach Competencies

1. Screening and Orientation: These coaching work behaviors focus on client motivation level, informed consent, coach and client roles, and general parameters for establishing the coaching process.

2. Fundamental Coaching Skills: These coaching work behaviors focus on the basic coaching alliance, helping skills, coaching plans and other essential issues concerning the coaching process.

3. Assessment: These coaching work behaviors assess coaching goals, client strengths and specific issues concerning the coaching process.

4. Approaches for Individuals: These coaching work behaviors pertain to specific skills aimed at facilitating the client’s desired goals during the coaching process including monitoring client progress, decision-making and use of resources.

5. Approaches for Businesses and Organizations: These coaching work behaviors include organization roles, change process, mentoring and conflict management related to the coaching process.

6. Ethical and Professional Practice: These coaching work behaviors focus on codes of ethics, advocacy, continuing education and personal barriers to the coaching process.