Guest Writer - Heather Stewart

Well the Boys v Girls challenge is well under way with our third week completed. Our ring leader/master/judge Debbie is doing a great job with the weekly competitions we started off with an antiques challenge, continued on to a movie music quiz, last week was the golf challenge and this week it is hula hooping. At this point it is only fair to mention that Arnold clinched it for the boys last week putting 9 holes in a row and so putting them in the lead with 2 games to 1 but us girls are simply lulling them into a false sense of security!

Other than hula hooping we do have plenty going on in the office this week:

Barry

Our CEO, has a busy week. He has internal meetings pretty much all day today. He's attending a seminar tomorrow morning at the Waterfront Hall. On Wednesday he's delivering some DISC training to staff whilst meeting representatives from Northgate and Fathom that afternoon. On Friday he's at an innovation seminar in Belfast.

Scott

Scott is meeting Stewart Miller from NorthgateArinso on Wednesday and hopes to work from home on Tuesday and Thursday. He is on annual leave on Friday and will be attending the wedding of Mark McAllister from the LRA to his fiancé Sonya Boyle from Belfast City Council at Tullyglass Hotel in Ballymena.

Jayne

As usual Jayne has a busy week of internal meetings along with attending Barry's disc profiling, joing Scott to meet Stewart Millar and then finally on Thursday she will be going to visit NACCO.

Marketing

The marketing team are meeting with Barry and Jayne on Tuesday afternoon to discuss their learning outcomes from their recent training from marketing consultant Paula Milligan and marketing guru Grant Leboff. 
Peter F, along with Jayne and Barry, is meeting digital consultant Gareth Dunlop from Fathom about a new Legal-Island website on Wednesday afternoon. He and Peter G are also attending an Invest NI run Google Analytics workshop at the Tullyglass Hotel, Ballymena on Thursday. Allison’s meetings appear to be internal this week apart from Thursday when she will be attending an 8am meeting hosted by the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce in The Europa entitled “Networking and Bitesized HR.

I will be working towards Ireland's HR Symposium 2013 which we are running next week and on Saturday I will be attending an Intensive Irish Language Course in St.Patrick's College. Other than that I may fit in a little bit of hula hoop training when I can!

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