13.56 Becoming better - a journey that never ends

Here with Jacky Leonard I start work on a truly significant issue. Amidst so much talk about 'lifelong learning', we explain the powerful idea and reality of 'becoming' a professional (anything), and that once we feel we have 'become' an expert that journey ends.

So, the true lifelong learner is a deliberate practitioner, and has the humility to accept and welcome a perpetual developmental path to better, and never perfect practice.

Certification and accreditation has value, this is in our view, no more than a point of departure - do too many see this as their arrival, and lose the appetite for further learning?

Come on, we pass a driving test, THEN we learn to drive. We know this, and surely we know too that this relates to our professional development.