Guest Writer - Ainsley

The leaves are changing colour, the weather warnings are more frequent and the heating's back on. Yes, it's officially Autumn! We sowed our seeds in Spring, meticulously planning and preparing some fantastic events and now its time to harvest the fruits of our labour.

In Northern Ireland this week we have 106 delegates attending our Mediation event: Resolution Revolution at the La Mon Hotel on Wednesday. Our NI Conference Manager Kerry will be hosting the event, ably assisted by Jayne and Peter G.

In the Republic of Ireland this week we have two events; Equality Law in Ireland Update and Comparative Employment Laws: UK and Ireland. Our ROI Conference Manager Heather will be running these two with a bit of help from Scott, who's chairing the Equality Update.

The other half of Scott (having split himself in 2 this week) will be attending the Equality Commission event: Strengthening Protection for all Ages on Tuesday, as well as meeting with Joe Blair and Nicola Cherry, who will be delivering a role play on dismissing older workers with dignity at this year's Annual Reviews of Employment Law. On Wednesday, Scott will be a speaker at the Resolution Revolution event and on Friday he will be woring from home writing the weekly review of developments email for the NI Email Update Service. He then joins himself back together, packs his hankie and flies to Paris at lunchtime to stay with his sister and her family. Saturday should be a trip to Versailles, followed by Le Louvre on Sunday. Let's hope he returns on Monday more cultured than he will be when he leaves!

Scott's not the only busy one this week. Our CEO, Barry Phillips, also has a busy week this week. He has meetings pretty much all day today and tomorrow. Tomorrow evening he's meeting Becky Hess for dinner. Becky is one of the many speakers we have lined up for the Resolution Revolution including Barry who is opening the event. On Thursday and Friday he is on an ILM coaching course along with Jayne, Kerry, James, Donna and myself.

Jayne is also out and about this week. As well as doing the coaching course and hosting at the Resolution Revolution, Jayne is also attending the Employers for Childcare: Childcare Works Awards at Belfast City Hall with Kerri.

We would also like to welcome the Public Health Agency, who are using the Training Centre tomorrow.

Have a great week.