Guest Writer: Peter

Last week saw the successful Winning Tenders in Northern Ireland conference keenly attended by various SME's and large private sector companies. The event was so popular we'd to change the venue!

We don't have any conferences this week, but that doesn't mean there's any slacking on the 'Island...

Here's what's going on this week:

Barry is in the office all day today signing off a few events. On Tuesday he's meeting Brian Speers, President of the Law Society, Ciara Fulton from Tughans and John Brolly from the Irish News. He also has a coaching session with Richard O'Rawe in the afternoon. On Wednesday he's up with the early birds for a breakfast meeting of BNI at Dunsilly Hotel, then meeting Mick Doggat for lunch. On Thursday he has an evening dinner at Parliament Building’s. Barry has a Friday free at the moment, but as we all know, that’s likely to change.

In a comedown from last weeks ‘networking’ at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Scott will be attending the tribunal users’ group meeting at the Office of the Industrial Tribunal and Fair Employment Tribunal on Thursday.

Kerry is meeting with the daughter of Michelle Groves who facilitates our Professional Workplace Investigations Workshops. Claire is completing her final year at UUJ in Events, Leisure and Culture management and is coming in to discuss a proposed business plan she is undertaking in her last semester rather than a dissertation.

Although not on the same scale as Barry, Ainsley has quite a busy week in terms of meetings. On Monday afternoon he’ll be meeting Rachel Morgan and Niall Gormley of DCP PR, on Tuesday morning he’s got our (conveniently located and reasonably priced) Training Centre booked for his meeting with Brian Nelson of Forth Data. Wednesday afternoon is slightly more light-hearted when he’s off to meet with his Young Enterprise team at Parkhall College.

On Thursday, Heather is volunteering with Ballycraigy Primary School, helping out with the coaching of their hockey teams.

Jayne and Heather will don their old clothes on Friday when the head off to help paint the Antrim Counselling Centre on Friday, again as part of our volunteering initiative.

A busy week all round!