Guest Writer - Jayne Finlay

It’s a big week this week – in fact it’s one of the most important weeks of the year at Legal-Island... no not the competition for best L-I pumpkin but something scarier... the start of the Annual Reviews! The teams are thoroughly prepped and I have every confidence we will do our customers proud once more by putting on the first of the 5 Annual Reviews in both style and excellence!


Leading the team, Heather will be donning her Conference Manager suit and ensuring the team at the Red Cow Moran Hotel on 1st November put on an event to remember. The Annual Review of Employment really is a must for all HR Directors and anyone needing a really great update in employment law with fantastic speakers, content and case studies. Don’t miss out! If you’re not attending the Red Cow (which sold out!) there are 2 other dates still available – 14th Nov at the Radisson Blu Airport and the 27th Nov at the Stillorgan Park Hotel. For those in the North, don’t miss out on our equivalent event – Annual Review of Employment Law at the La Mon Hotel on 6th Nov and again at the Ramada Shawsbridge on 21st Nov.

Joining Heather at the Red Cow will be the “Dream Team” of hosters, consisting of Kerry Murphy, Vanessa Porter and Peter Fitzpatrick.

In other business, the Training Centre will be hosting Chest Heart and Stroke on Friday, Allison will be busy on the phones and Barry our CEO will be working in meetings and strategy issues before wrapping up bits and pieces to take a few days' leave..

I will be manning the fort while the team is away, in and out of internal and external meetings all week.

Ainsley too will be in and out of meetings all week, he is on Annual Leave tomorrow afternoon and Friday afternoon.

Have a fangtastic week everyone!!!!

Guest Writer - Heather Stewart

Happy Halloween! 

It won't be long until the ghostly children are knocking on our doors looking for some Halloween treats.

Its a bit of a frightening week here in Legal-Island as our Annual Review of Employment Law begins next week with a sold out event in the Red Cow Hotel in Dublin, but never fear we have more ghoulish dates available, just check out our website for Belfast or Dublin.

Let's see what the zombies in the office are up to this week.....

Barry our CEO had an easy week by his standards. He has a meeting with Philip Bain of Shred Bank tomorrow. Thursday and he's on day 3 of the company coaching course. Apparently he's done all the reading for it too! Friday he's meeting representatives from Northgate Arinso.

Scott has several meetings this week:

Tuesday: Tanya Kennedy from BITC 

Wed: Dublin, Equality Authority Conference – Mainstreaming and the Positive Duty in Public Sector

Thurs: 1. Joe Blair & Nicola Cherry, Belfast

            2. Future of Workplace Relations, John Taylor, Acas, Spires Conference Centre, Belfast

            3. Emer Hinphey, Thinkpeople, Belfast

            4. David Graham, Finance Matters (NI) Ltd & Sheila Davidson (PR)

Friday: Northgate Arinzo, Antrim

Jayne is also busy every day this week with meetings:
Monday – Employers for Childcare meeting at their premises in afternoon

Tuesday – internal meetings

Wednesday – WIB NI Awards Finalists event at Galgorm

Thursday – Coaching final day

Friday – meetings in office

Kerry & I will be holding our hosters meeting in preparation for our big month of events, Kerry also will be attending the coaching course on Thursday along with Donna and Ainsley.

We also have plenty going on in our training centre with Schrader, SS Coaching and Northern Ireland Chest Heart and Stroke coming in throughout the week to use the facilities.

I hope you have a hair raising week!

Guest Writer- Donna Kirkpatrick

When you got up this morning did you wonder what would would be happening across the world today? It is just as well you are reading this blog because I can educate you, this is Global Hand-washing Day and last year it was celebrated through song, drama, poems and events, who would ever have thought of a day dedicated to hand-washing?

At Legal-Island this week, we won't be celebrating this one but we are celebrating the fact that the Annual Review of Employment Law in the Red Cow has no seats left - isn't that brilliant, it has SOLD OUT. Don't worry if you have not booked yet because we have other dates in other venues both in NI and ROI. 

Who is doing what this week?

Our CEO, Barry Phillips has a quiet enough week by his standards. He has lots of internal meetings throughout the week. On Thursday he is giving a motivational talk at Wellington College about becoming an entrepreneur

Ainsley, our marketing and sales manager has Gary Grattan from MGM media coming in to see him on Tuesday. He will be out at the BITC Corporate Responsibility Conference on Wednesday and then Pamela, one of our employees who is off on maternity leave will be meeting him for lunch on Thursday.

Scott has a quiet week ahead with internal meetings only.

In the training centre this week we will be welcoming Schrader, Anne Dargan, the Public Health Agency and Social Services Training.

There you go I'm sure you're glad you read this because you now know who is doing what in Legal-Island this week and you  know it is Global Handwashing week - win win!

Guest writer Vanessa Porter

It happens every year as the trees start to turn, the nights draw in and X Factor fixing allegations start swirling round Louis Walsh like Autumn leaves – you know you’re in the run up to the Legal-Island Annual Review of Employment Law! It’s another busy week here on the Island.

 

Our CEO, Barry Phillips, has a busy week ahead. Today he has internal meetings and a speech to deliver this evening at the Belfast Speakers' Circle. Tomorrow he has external meetings before traveling to Dublin to Chair the Data Protection Conference on Wednesday. On Thursday he's Chairing the Annual Review Conference in London. Friday and he's leading the ST meeting before wrapping up for the weekend.

 

Scott is meeting Mike Jones of Penna today to discuss next year’s HR conferences. On Tuesday, Scott will be undertaking in-house training at FOLD Housing. He’ll be working from home on Wednesday and Thursday, until he leaves for Belfast to chair the first of the Belfast HR Network meetings to be held at the offices of Arthur Cox. On Friday Scott will be attending the Strategy Team meeting.

 

Jayne has a busy week, her normal internal meetings today, lunch with Barry and Pauline Thompson tomorrow and then travelling to London on Wednesday prior to hosting our Annual Review of Employment Law 2012 at the Ambassadors Bloomsbury on Thursday.

 

Heather will be travelling to Dublin on Tuesday as she has the 2012 Data Protection and Compliance Update Conference taking place at the Radisson Blu Dublin Airport (there are stills some places available for this event), she will be ably assisted on the day by Peter – the Debbie McGee to her Paul Daniels!

 

There is a Strategy Team Meeting on Friday that most of the senior staff will be attending.

 

Our Training Centre will be in use this Tuesday and Wednesday when we have Schrader with us.

 

Guest Writer: Peter Fitzpatrick

Macmillan Coffee Morning at Legal-Island raised £110.01

Last week was an exciting week, quite spectacularly rounded off with our Macmillan Coffee Morning on Friday morning. With Heather’s pricing strategy of 50p per bun or all you can eat for only a fiver, we made a lot more money than expected - £110.01 to be exact. Well done to everyone on raising money for such a great charity.

It’s October already and we’re edging ever closer to our flagship events in both Northern Ireland and Republic of Ireland – the Annual Review of Employment Law conferences.

With the first Irish Annual Review of Employment Law conference taking place at the Red Cow, Dublin on 1^st November, you’d better book now to secure your place! Book and pay for your place online here or book your place and pay by invoice here.

Our first Northern Ireland Annual Review of Employment Law conference takes place at the La Mon Hotel & Country Club, Belfast on Tuesday 6^th November – with speakers of the calibre of Mark McAllister (LRA), Stephen Mearns (John Ross & Sons) and Maxine Orr (Worthingtons), it really is an event not to be missed! Book and pay for your place online here or book your place and pay by invoice here.

The staff movements this week:

Our CEO, Barry Phillips, has a busy week. He's meeting the company coach, Richard O'Rawe, for lunch today with the MD and has one-to-one meetings either side. Then he, along with Peter G and Ainsley, is meeting Leo Murphy of South West College  regarding a piece of eLearning Software. Tomorrow he's meeting Legal-Island trainer Linzi Conway and attending a seminar entitled ‘Driving Business Performance and Growth through HR’ at the Titanic Quarter on Wednesday. On Thursday he is in Manchester chairing the first of the Annual Review conference this year. On Friday he’ll be back on the ‘Island to attend our monthly marketing meeting.

Jayne has her usual meetings today including a meeting with Richard O’Rawe and Barry at lunchtime. On Wednesday she travels to GB for Thursday’s Annual Review of Employment Law conference taking place in Manchester on Thursday. On Friday she is meeting Joanne McAuley (Clarendon Executive) and Nial Borthistle (HMC Global) in Belfast.

Scott, along with Peter F and Ainsley, will be Richard Stark from Croner on Wednesday regarding the Annual Review of Employment Law conferences in Northern Ireland. On Thursday he’ll be chairing the Equality Law in NI Update at the Hilton Hotel in Belfast. He hopes to work from home this Friday. 

Ainsley is meeting Stuart McClean from ChooBoo tomorrow lunchtime followed by a Training Solutionz meeting with Barry and James in the afternoon.