HONK! HONK! went the horn in the office this morning. We have a horn that gets honked every time we have an important announcement or success to report - and today was no exception. The early morning din signalled our first booking of the year for our GB event: Age and Retirement - The New Law This is an important moment because all of us on the Island have been preparing for our 'assault' on London, Birmingham and Manchester for some time - hopefully this is the first of many bookings.
Keeping our feet firmly on the ground, we still have a lot of work to do this week in NI and ROI. Wednesday and Thursday bring trips to Galway and Athlone respectively, for our education event: Dealing with Teacher Underperformance. The latter is sold out but there are still a few places left for Galway.
Also on Thursday we have our first full day NI event of the year, with Winning Tenders taking place at the Hilton Hotel, Templepatrick. We had originally intended to run this event at our Training Centre, but huge popular demand forced us to source a bigger venue. There are still one or two places left, but only if you're quick!
This week our CEO, Barry will be meeting Laura Coulter, mediator, today and is hearing a mediation appeal tomorrow. He is also meeting Trayc Keevans from Morgan McKinley tomorrow as well as Hannah Carney from Dale Carnegie. On Thursday, he's meeting the company performance coach, Fiona Keenan, as well as Robert from BITC and on Friday he's meeting Alan McVey from Iron Mountain. In the evenings he's finishing off 'Winning' by Clive Woodward - a fabulous book about how he led a team to rugby World Cup glory. It's stuffed full of great business tips apparently, so watch this space!
Also out and about this week is Scott, our Head of Training and Development. He will be in Dublin meeting Pat Brady from ByrneWallace Solicitors and also McDowell Purcell Solicitors on Wednesday, followed by a meeting with representatives from Irish Life on Friday.
Our ROI Conference Manager, Heather, is our social butterfly this week, meeting Richard Fee today who runs the charity Eye Feel Good, followed by Elaine Magee of Antrim Borough Council tomorrow, to talk about volunteering opportunities. On Thursday Heather will be discussing 'Growth through mentoring' with Women In Business and on Friday she will be meeting Katie Setterfield of CLIC Sargent, with me.
As well as meeting Katie on Friday, I will also be at Parkhall College on Wednesday afternoon to continue the Young Enterprise Business Programme and on Thursday morning I am meeting Phil Boyd from Boyd Communications.
Independent Health Care Providers are using our Training Centre, tomorrow so Donna will be busy preparing for their arrival, followed by a trip to Ballycraigy Primary School with Kerry to play hockey on Thursday.
Right, I think that's it for this week. Hopefully my incessant tapping of keys will soon be drowned out by yet more horns!!
Have a great week.
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