Michael @emb021, Diana @dcontesti, and Grandpa Rob @rslade have each challenged my position that leadership or service positions in professional society chapters should not qualify for CPE credit. Your posts have caused me to think more on the topic and modify my position. I have for years considered the professional education phrase as referring to education in the central aspects of the profession, defined for CISSPs in the domains of the CBK.
However, many in the technical fields have increasingly come to recognize that technical knowledge and skill is worthless without an ability to take action and implement the results of such skills. For this reason, many across the engineering, technical, and scientific arenas have been increasing the focus on balancing technical skills with so-called soft skills. In almost any environment, the leadership and management skills for planning, organizing, communicating, directing, coordinating actions with a team are essential to actual success. As Diana implied, these skills come to bear when involved in professional society service and leadership positions, both at the chapter and at the society level.
With the above logic I hereby withdraw my assertion of bribery for service as the basis for society service CPE credit. However, now I wonder should such service be identified as a third CPE category, Type C, and limited to a reasonable proportion of the total 120 credit requirement, just as Type B general skill credits are limited? It seem that some proportion of the 120 credits should always be Type A domain-linked education.
Regards,
