What are your T&C goals?

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Joel Turland, managing director of T&C software supplier Redland, explains the importance of having good training and competency schemes in place.

A lot of management time and press attention has been given to the challenges of obtaining the professional qualifications necessary to operate post-2012. However, care should be taken that obtaining professional qualifications, while a key objective of RDR, does not become the end game. A new era RDR represents the beginning of a new era of maintaining and evidencing higher standards of competency. A focus on qualifications alone is not the same thing as building a robust competency framework for improving and maintaining standards. Good training and competency (T&C) schemes develop i...

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