Report launched in November 2023.
The 14th edition of our Financial Benchmarking Report for Professional Bodies is based on two years of financial and organisational data (2021-2022) from over 500 professional bodies in the UK.
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future. It can help your professional body to identify significant differences between your performance... Details
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Written by Andy Friedman, Robert Pitts, Natasha Afitska, Alexander Witt
Since 2003, PARN has run its triennial Professional Body Benchmarking Survey (PBBS) for professional bodies.
The survey covers governance and internal operations, membership, education, CPD and professional standards.
It acts as a state of the sector review and aims to cover most key functions undertaken by professional bodies, allowing benchmarking across several... Details
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Hilary Lindsay (2014)
Adaptability: The Secret to Lifelong Learning explores what continuing professional development and lifelong learning mean in practice today for members of professions and their professional bodies.
Globalisation, demands for accountability and technological advances mean the world in which professionals work will never stand still. Meanwhile jobs for life have been consigned to the past and professional careers will tend to be more... Details
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At the heart of this book is a model, which is intended to clarify the nature and strength of obligations ethical codes of conduct place on professionals, and to compare these aspects of obligations according to the beneficiaries of these obligations. It is used to help evaluate professional codes in terms of the clarity, relative emphasis, and appropriateness of particular statements within codes, and also in terms of the coverage of obligations and stakeholders in particular codes... Details
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Andrew Friedman and Jane Mason (2003)
This book considers the services provided by professional bodies in a broad context. It explores the responses of professional bodies to pressures for service development from market competition and the notion that professionals should somehow insure clients and employers against risks.
Based on a comprehensive survey of 340 websites of UK professional associations and membership organisations, this book provides a... Details
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Christina Williams, William Hanson & Andy Friedman (2012)
This book pulls together PARN knowledge on entry to the professions, focusing in particular on ‘new’ ways of qualifying.
It is intended to support those concerned with entry standards and professional qualifications, as well as those tasked with the strategic consideration of recruitment and training of professionals into the future.
The content of this book is based on findings from two... Details
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M Phillips, I Cruickshank & A Friedman (2002)
This book addresses the fundamental question: "What is good practice in CPD?"
It includes a detailed analysis of the CPD schemes of four professional bodies, covering the implementation process, definition, policy type, measurement, sanctions, incentives, monitoring, guidelines, support and outreach.
It identifies and analyses five criteria of good practice: clarity, consistency, reflection,... Details
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Andy Friedman & Laura Tinner (2016)
Continuing professional development (CPD) continues to command the attention of the professional body sector. We can chart an intensification of effort closely linked to a move away from voluntary practice towards mandated CPD polices, as well as an increase in measuring CPD by outputs.
The shifting CPD landscape introduces associated challenges: how to adequately resource CPD audit; what to do with CPD non compliance;... Details
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Andrew Friedman (2002)
This is the fifth book in the ongoing series on the provision of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) through UK Professional Bodies.
This book deals with problems and challenges for professionals and professional bodies that have concerned those designing, operating and receiving CPD programmes for some time now.
These are issues reflecting how CPD is defined, enforced, measured and assessed, and how it impacts on... Details
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Andy Friedman and Jane Mason (November 2007)
This is the first book to present a comprehensive picture of Australian professional bodies and their practices, and to compare them with professional bodies in other countries.
Approaches to member relations, governance, continuing professional development, operations and ethics from 49 Australian professional bodies are compared with 75 in Canada, 110 in the UK and 21 in Ireland.
There is much to be ... Details
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Andrew Friedman and Christina Williams (November 2007)
This book is the fourth in the series on the professionalisation of professional associations and other related professional organisations such as regulatory bodies and learned societies.
In the series, we examine the proposition that professional bodies are becoming more strategic, more reflective, more structured, in short, more professional. Here we present the first study of professional bodies in... Details
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Rob Denny and Laura Tinner (2016)
Diversification of sources of income is an aspiration that many businesses strive to achieve. A strategy of diversification can help organisations weather financially difficult times by providing a range of different sources of revenue.
In many respects, the professional body sector is no different. Just as any private enterprise is vulnerable to economic downturn, changes in consumer preferences, or other unforeseen... Details
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William Hanson & Christina Williams (2012)
Our book E-learning for Professionals continues a series of publications on PARN's research into the area of professional education and pulls together their knowledge on social networking and professionals’ use of online learning for CPD purposes.
PARN investigated professional bodies’ development and usage of e-learning, professionals’ views and experiences of e-learning, future trends, and patterns in... Details
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Christina Williams (2013)
Engaging & Retaining Your Members is an investigation of how real professional bodies deal with real membership issues.
Today professional bodies are very focused on member recruitment, retention and engagement. Professional bodies think they could be doing better at member relations, at communicating the value of membership to potential members and persuading their current members that remaining a member is essential. They would... Details
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Andrew Friedman (2004)
This is the third book on professional ethics to be produced by PARN. Previous books focused on analysing professional codes of conduct. This book introduces the concept of ethical competence.
For professionals ethical competence is the ability to work at an occupation in a manner as defined by professional ethical codes of conduct. This generally involves knowing when to apply and when to forbear from applying knowledge, based on... Details
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Report launched in November 2022
The 13th edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years of financial and organisational data (2020-2021) from over 500 professional bodies in the UK.
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future. It can help your professional body to identify significant differences between your performance and that... Details
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Report launched in November 2018
The ninth edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years (2016-17) of financial and organisational data from over 400 professional bodies in the UK!
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future.
This report can help your professional body to identify significant differences between ... Details
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Report launched in November 2018
The ninth edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years (2016-17) of financial and organisational data from over 400 professional bodies in the UK!
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future.
This report can help your professional body to identify significant differences... Details
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Report launched in November 2019
The tenth edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years (2017-18) of financial and organisational data from over 500 professional bodies in the UK!
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future.
This report can help your professional body to identify significant differences... Details
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Report launched in December 2020
The eleventh edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years (2018-19) of financial and organisational data from over 500 professional bodies in the UK!
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future.
This report can help your professional body to identify significant differences... Details
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Report launched in November 2021
The 12th edition of our Financial Benchmarking for Professional Bodies report is based on two years (2019-2020) of financial and organisational data from over 500 professional bodies in the UK!
This report is an important tool for planning, evaluating and directing your organisation's financial activities now and in the future.
This report can help your professional body to identify significant differences... Details
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William Hanson (2013)
Going Global: Growing Your International Membership is an investigation into how professional bodies can successfully transition from being national organisations into international ones, representing their professions globally.
The world has grown smaller. Companies and individuals alike are increasingly comfortable operating or living between nations. Globalisation has brought about a need for consistency and standardisation in the... Details
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Andrew Friedman, Mary Phillips and Ming Ming JD Chan (2002)
This is the first in a new series of PARN publications on governance of professional associations.
It presents an analysis of the issues facing governing bodies of professional associations.
It asks and responds to the following: What are the roles and responsibilities of governing bodies? How effective are the governance structures currently in place? What can be learnt from... Details
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Andrew Friedman and Mary Phillips (2003)
This is the second book in a series of PARN publications on the governance of Professional Associations.
The first discussed the challenges facing governing bodies, and in particular the need to balance effectiveness with representativity. The 'cupped hands' model was presented which offered a way of re-thinking the roles of Council and Executive Board.
This book addresses the following... Details
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Andy Friedman and Jane Mason (2003/06)
PARN’s third book in the series on the governance of professional associations builds on previous editions’ theories and concepts.
It provides a guide to common problems, pitfalls and pathways for professional associations seeking to facilitate appropriate changes to their governance arrangements. This edition is based on PARN’s experience of working with professional associations to review and advise on governance... Details
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