Certified Professional Leader™ Certification Importance and Benefits
According to the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM, 2010/12) over 90%
of new-hires and promotions are based on an individual employ holding certification.
This results from a desire in the hiring community to ensure that new-hires or
promoted employees demonstrate an ability to understand best practices (theoretic)
for improved performance within a given profession. To this end, a recent
phenomenon has occurred whereby the traditional pathway to higher-education is
changing, and learners are now investing has much time in professional roles
while also involved with degree programs (Pink, 2013). As a result, there are
increased demands to not only ensure academic development of individuals as
working professionals, but also measure their applied performance so that they
may grow professionally while pursing degree's over longer-term periods (Rand,
2013). Furthermore, according to the Seattle Jobs Initiative, 83% of Human
Resource professionals indicate the performance skills (goal-setting, communication,
team-work, self-awareness, proactivity) are the primary challenge faced when new
hires are made within an organization (SJI, 2013).
Professions by definition, require an association of
members to be recognized as a professional role; furthermore, a professional
must have a standard of best practices and seek to improve the collective
participation of a body of members within a given profession by creating standards.
With rising groups within private, non-profit, and civil defense agencies
interacting with negotiation client, vender, and internal strategies to improve
culture, reduce costs, or create win-win agreements to avoid layoffs or other
fiscally required alterations due to the economy, a clear need has been presented
to the SLA to confer a certification for those who demonstrate the capabilities
meeting the rigors of the SLA examination process.
As a result, using the SLA credentialing process and requisite subject-matter
expert advisory committee, academic and applied performance standards have been
created to measure best-practice (theory) and application (experience and results)
to create the Certified Professional Leader. This certification, along with
the
Certified Professional Coach
(CPC),
Human Resource Associate
(HRA), and Certified Professional Leader (CPL) are administered
by the SLA. Over 6000 people will hold credentials through the SLA through
year-end 2013; join the ranks of growing learning-based professionals to demonstrate
your professional competencies.