Professional Development is a term that may be used to characterise a wide variety of specialised training, formal education, or advanced professional learning intended to help business owners, executives, administrators and other goal orientated professionals to improve their professional knowledge, competence, skill, and effectiveness. Professional development is also about learning to earn, or maintain a professional standard and to be successful and to embrace learning opportunities situated in practice. It can be described as intensive and collaborative, ideally incorporating an evaluative stage and is ultimately measured in results.