Safeguarding
Your Continuing Education
By
John Collins, CTRS, ACC
Many
certified individuals spend a lot of time and financial
resources to attend continuing education programs in
order to renew their certification every two years.
How they handle their certificates determines whether
they are ready when that renewal letter comes in the
mail. What I am referring to is where do you put your
certificates from the educational programs? If you keep
them at home, are they in a safe place? And in light
of the natural disasters that have happened this year,
will they still be there when you need them in two years?
Hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, sinkholes, earthquakes,
tsunamis, etc. can happen at any time and can destroy
your home. When you attend these continuing education
programs you should make sure that you have a backup
plan for retrieving these hours when you need them.
File them in your personnel folder at work, give a copy
to a friend to hold, keep a copy in your department
at work. Many organizations do not keep records of continuing
education and do not provide replacement of lost or
misplaced certificates, while others charge a fee for
replacements. Don't you think after spending the money
and going to the seminar/conference that the certificate
is valuable to you? Safeguard those certificates. NN
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