My response to this is: if it needs to be incentivized, it isn't professional development. The whole idea of being a professional is that you've taken on the responsibility of developing and pursuring expertise, and you don't need to be managed or otherwise 'incentivized' into doing it. One example offered in this article is a Remote Work Leadership badge "intended to encourage supervisors to watch a series of videos on the topic of managing remote teams." I would be very worried about my leadership is they had to be given a badge in order to get them to learn about leadership. And I think that's the core issue with badges generally: they conflate incentive and recognition.
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