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Peer review is one of the most important steps you can take for your professional development. The peer review panel members use clear-cut criteria for practitioner competence and standards for excellence. Sitting for peer review is a requirement of membership in ACI.

By engaging in a peer review and cooperating in this means of assuring competent, ethical practice, you are demonstrating your commitment to best serve your clients’ goals and needs.

• Value of Professional Peer Review
• Benefits Of Peer Review
• What If I’m Already A Seasoned Professional?
• Five Divisions Of Peer Review
  

Value of Professional Peer Review          - Back to Top -

Peer reviews are an excellent means for you to assess your competence a enhance your development plan. Over the years, we have developed a systematic process. It is designed to encourage you to advance your expertise.

The essence of this peer review process revolves around a dialogue on the following important aspects of your professional practice.

1. Effectiveness. An exploration of your practice with emphasis on results and consequences for your clients as well as yourself.
2. Theory Base. An exploration of your integration of theories and concepts into your own practice.
3. Ethical Behavior. A review of the ethical dilemmas where you struggle and how you resolve them.
4. Supporting Diversity. Review of your skill to recognize and address social issues of discrimination and sustainability.
5. Development Goals. Discussion of the direction and plans for your continuing professional development and growth.

Benefits Of Peer Review          - Back to Top -

This process provides the following value added benefits.

• Enhancement and affirmation of the self-directed exploration needed to learn and develop as a professional.
• Facilitation of rapid development and internalization of your own standards and ethics.
• Confirmation that you are a competent practitioner able to make valuable and important contributions to society, individuals and client organizations.
• Identification of your areas for further development in terms of skill, knowledge, ability and/or experience.
  

What If I’m Already A Seasoned Professional?          - Back to Top -

While the value of this process for newer consultants and practitioners is self evident, established specialists may feel little need to review their professional practice. However, the ACI peer review process ensures that even established internal or external practitioners honestly deliberate, reassess and re-energize their practice. This often leads to alteration of priorities and direction, as well as positive changes to practice and lifestyle.

Five Divisions Of Peer Review          - Back to Top -

Our members complete peer reviews in five divisions. You may find you are qualified in more than one division, and apply for these at the same time.

Personal and Professional Development.
The focus is on your individual processes of learning and development as it occurs in various life stages, in the context of interpersonal and working relationships with others in their human systems. Coaching professionals, career counselors and others who work with individuals often find this division appropriate to their professional practices.

Small Group Development.
The focus is on small groups as arenas for learning about social and task behavior, relationships and effects, within and between individuals and groups. Facilitators, trainers and those who work with small groups in a variety of capacities find this division appropriate.

Organization Development.
Here the focus is on working with members and leaders of organizations to improve efficiency and effectiveness. It includes the design and implementation of planned system changes using change strategies to maximize the internal strengths of the organization and build strong internal networks. Organization development consultants, internal and external, fit very well into this division, as do certain management consultants and agents of change, some social as well as organizational.

Societal Change.
The focus here is on work with communities and broader social and human systems to generate and implement constructive improvements, in pursuit of common causes and the public good. Here is the division home for those dedicated to social change in communities, as well as organizations, working in areas as varied as environmental sustainability and human resource diversity.

Managers and Executives as Changes Agents.
The focus here is on work of a manager or executive within an organization to develop the individuals, groups, and the organization itself. Leaders in a variety of organization and social development functions find this division reflects their professional needs.

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