Chartership update

Back in August, I said I was aiming to get my work on CILIP Chartership (and I quote) ‘cracked by Christmas’. Didn’t happen. But I’m nearly there. I can see the light at the end of the Chartership tunnel, so to speak. I’m now aiming to submit my application sometime in February and this blog may be quite busy over the next few weeks. So I thought I’d post a quick update on where I am now, and what I still have left to do…

Where I am now

• I’ve updated my CV and tailored it towards my Chartership application
• I’ve drafted my final PPDP
• I’ve put together a select bibliography and I’ve added in some reflective annotations
• I’ve started organising potential evidence into a matrix matching my development activities against the Chartership criteria and I’m beginning to see how I might organise my evidence in my portfolio

What I still have left to do

• As I’m starting to focus in on the evidence I might submit, I’m realising that I could do with some more reflective pieces on some of the key areas I’ve developed in, such as writing and project management. So I may well be blogging about these soon!
• I need to colour code my PPDP to highlight section two and future development activities
• I’ve decided to include two organisational structure charts, from the beginning and the end of my Chartership progress. I need to annotate these to explain why I think it’s important to include both
• I need to decide on the final pieces of evidence I’m planning to submit
• I haven’t started my evaluative statement yet (I want to be able to link it to all of my evidence, so I need a good idea of what’s going to make the final cut first!)
• Lastly, I need to organise my portfolio, create a contents table and submit my Chartership application to CILIP

Looks like I might be pretty busy for the next month or so!