Monday, 19 September 2011

Guest Writer - Donna Kirkpatrick


The tip for the day on my desk calendar says "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one" and that basically will be the theme for the week here in Legal-Island.

On Wednesday 21st September we will be hosting the first ever Mediation Symposium in Northern Ireland at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club. Kerry Taggart will be in charge of hosting the event and with numbers of 110+ it looks like it will be an event not to be missed. Can you afford not to go?

Barry will be in the office all day on Monday. On Tuesday his first meeting is at 8.30am with Gerry MacFarlane. He will then be picking up one of the
speakers for the Mediation event at the airport, followed by a meeting in Belfast at 1pm and another meeting at 4pm. On Wednesday Barry will be attending the Mediation Symposium and will be at a training event in Dublin on Thursday and Friday with Jayne.

Ainsley will be attending a Customer Relationship Management event in Belfast with Jayne and Barry, followed by a Young IOD event at the Lexus showroom in Boucher Road with Jayne.On Wednesday Ainsley will be meeting Johnny Megarry from Nicholson Bass, followed by Fiona Keenan at the Hilton before meeting Brian Nelson from Forth Data. A new Lexus would certainly help Ainsley get to these meetings in super fast time!

As well as doing the super task of managing the Mediation Symposium on Wednesday, Kerry will still have time to meet with Ciaran Sheehan on Tuesday.

Scott will be chairing a meeting of sponsors and partners on 20th Tuesday to discuss the first draft programme of the NI HR conference 2012, which has been designed by Penna. Before that he may be picking up internationally renowned mediator Ewan Malcolm from the airport. Ewan is a keynote speaker at Legal-Island's Mediation Symposium on 21st September. Scott will be facilitating one of the sessions at the Symposium and hopes to be able to work from home on Thursday and Friday.

Heather will be speeding off to Croke Park this week for 4 of our ROI events - Discipline and Underperformance, Essentials of Employment law, Post Primary Dealing with Underperformance (which has now sold out) and Internal Mediation (Day1).

Jayne is meeting Ciaran Sheehan on Tuesday at 1pm and she will be attending the CRM event with Ainsley followed by the young IOD event at the Lexus showroom. . On Wednesday she will be seeing Fiona Keenan and then will be attending a CO3 mentoring event. On Thursday and Friday she will be attending a Train the Trainer event with Barry - busy girl,that will be 2 Lexus's we will need to order!

In the Island House training centre, we are delighted to be welcome Invest NI.

So if your empty mind needs opened you know the place to come to!

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