Guest Writer - Vanessa

As the last notes of World in Motion (the best football song ever!) fade out, the Republic of Ireland team pick themselves up and dust themselves off and we all calm down about dodgy refereeing decisions - another week begins here on the Island and a busy one at that!

Away Fixtures - we have a hat trick of events taking place this week – Kerry, ably assisted by Ainsley is hosting the Data Protection in the Workplace event at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club tomorrow – we still have limited places for this event as well as All About Absence from Work which is taking place on the 19^th June.

Also our last two events down south are taking place before Heather has a well-deserved summer break and both promise to be well attended, Workplace Mediation and All About Absence from Work both have spaces still available for Injury Time Bookings and with that I promise to stop shoehorning in v poor football references. All About Absence promises to be particularly busy and Heather will be assisted on hosting duties by Jayne and Peter.

At home - our CEO, Barry Phillips has a busy week. He has internal meetings pretty much all day today. Tomorrow he's chairing our data protection conference at Le Mon Hotel. On Wednesday he's delivering a mediation workshop with fellow mediator Michele Groves. On Thursday he's meeting Martin Rice of NextLevelImpact and Stuart from the Ulster Business Journal. On Friday he's leading the first of our strategy days before attending mediation a training seminar at Letterkenny on Saturday.

Scott has options this week but he’s not sure what they’ll be until he’s had a couple of meetings today.  On Tuesday he’ll either be chairing the HR network, if it goes ahead, or he’ll work from home. On Wednesday he’ll work from home or might be in Dublin for a mediation event. Whilst on Thursday he’s definitely chairing the ‘All about Absence’ Event at the Radisson Dublin Airport and will be role playing in the return to work session. On Friday he’ll either be taking part in the Legal-Island strategy day or a discussion at the Law Centre on changes to dispute resolution and employment laws in NI.

Peter G will be attending the launch of the Digital Advertising Northern Ireland Awards on Tuesday morning in Belfast. On Thursday morning he will be attending a seminar on online marketing at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast.

Heather has Clarion Hotels coming in to see her tomorrow morning. 

Kerry will be hosting the First Thursday Mediation Club this week in the Legal-Island Training Centre on Thursday evening. We have Tony Kearney coming along from Donegal to facilitate a session on ‘Commercial Mediation’.

Everyone has their usual meetings this week and the Admin Team will be meeting individually with our Line Manager Donna to discuss objectives.

The Senior Management Team will be attending an offsite Strategy Day on Friday.