Guest Writer: John

Now that our customers have received their essential training for 2011 through our Annual Review of Employment Law events, its our turn at Legal-Island as we take part in our twice yearly Training Week. This gives us a chance to reflect on the past year, plan for the year ahead and get involved in teamwork at the same time.

Monday will see us all receiving the wisdom of Mark McAllister from the Labour Relations Agency as he speaks on 'Dignity at Work', of which some members of staff may claim to have more than others! This is followed by a review of the year and the Corporate Strategy for 2012 in the afternoon.

On Tuesday, we are leaving the office and donning our ragged trousers to become philanthropists for the day, painting the premises of Home Start in Antrim. This is where we get to add a splash of colour to our work and find out who amongst us is the Van Gogh (creative, crazy and lacking an ear?)

We are back in the Legal Island Training Centre on Wednesday, with a packed agenda including

Networking Update, Disc Profiling,Team work - Communication skills, Staff Charter and Customer Charter, Policies – Update on policies for 2012 and Certain software update!

There is no training planned for Thursday as Kerry has an event taking place in the Training Centre- the second day of the Mediation course, which gives the rest of us a chance to catch up on work.

We end the week with a visit from the Ulster Cancer Foundation, who will be following up on our health audits from earlier in the year to check if we have improved our health levels and if we need to go on the naughty or nice list. Jayne will then be giving a presentation on Meeting Faciltiation Skills in the afternoon before we head home for the weekend.