How frequently should people engage in professional development programs like training seminars?
Continuously. Exposure to new sources of information helps people expand their own sense of context and possibility. Gaining new knowledge helps grow confidence that the choices, decisions, and efforts you make are sound.
With so many programs out there, how can professionals ensure they are choosing one that is beneficial?
Stick to the basics — is the training speaking to something you have an interest in? Is it making sense? Is it sustaining your interest? When your brain, spirit, and energy are fully engaged, you are learning at a deep and enduring level. Bored out of your mind? Cannot understand what the presenter is talking about? MOVE ON! Keep going until you encounter someone or something that captures and holds your interest. There is no use wasting personal, emotional, spiritual, or financial resources on something that you are already disengaged from and therefore will not use.
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