Maintaining the Chartered Director Designation

The IoD will continue to support your professional development and create networking opportunities amongst your fellow Chartered Directors. The Chartered Director Network is there for you to keep up to date but we recognise that there may be other opportunities for you to do so with other networks and providers.

There is an annual requirement to update your records including your current position / employment and your Continuing Professional Development (CPD). You are required to log this on Chartered Director Online. Further details on how you access this site will be sent to you as it also contains event fliers and a unique forum for Chartered Directors to exchange views.

Two common problems that you may encounter when trying to log CPD:

1.   If you change your e-mail address this will affect your access (password) for iod.com and may mean that you cannot access the CPD site through the normal link on your personal home page.  In this instance, please contact membership@iod.com to obtain a change in your password.  

2.   If you download a certificate during a current cycle, this will lock your record.  Please contact chartered.director@iod.com to unlock your record, or for any other queries on accessing the site.

It is important you log your position and CPD for the following reasons:

• It is a requirement of the designation C Dir that you hold a current directorship once elected. If this is not the case, please update your details on the site, and if you do not hold a current post, please notify the Chartered Director Executive. You will be given a period of one year to update your record. If you cannot do so, please tell us and keep in contact with us. You are still required to observe the Code of Conduct and to maintain your CPD record.
• If you are taking sabbatical or other leave, in which case please record this fact. Your designation would then be suspended temporarily, so you would need to inform us when you resume working. Your Chartered Director fee is waived for this period. (Note: following sabbatical, please resume your CPD logging.)
• You will need to record your CPD; the site is regularly monitored to review Chartered Directors' CPD records. For new Chartered Directors, monitoring will commence 15 months after election date, and thereafter, on an annual basis. The completion of your record is a condition of the Code of Conduct.

• Guide to Continuing Professional Development

Please also note:

• If you retire from full and part time employment, you may retain your Chartered Director designation, on the basis that you confirm that you are not providing services as a director. If you resume employment, please let us know as this raises a requirement for CPD to be undertaken.

Retaining the designation of Chartered Director raises a requirement for an annual fee of £52, or in the case of retired Chartered Directors, £26.

Earning CPD credits (hours)

There are several activity types that may be pursued for CPD and there are three key categories: ‘self directed’ (ie, reading and general updating), ‘formal/professional’ (which would range from mentoring, delivering or attending seminars or learning events, including any that relate to functional or specialist activities) and ‘other’ – these might be personal development activities such as coaching sessions, skills based sessions, eg making effective presentations, etc.

Under 'formal/professional', as a guide, the activities and events offered via the IoD’s Events team carry credits (hours). Breakfast events are credited at 2 hours; half day events are credited at 4 hours and full day events at 7.5 hours. This is, of course, a guide - you may spend more time pursuing an idea arising from the event, or you may attribute an amount of time that you feel is more appropriate. Please note that you will need to log these hours within your record for the IoD’s purposes.