Training Portfolio

• Qualification: Postgraduate Diploma in Human Resource Management, CIPD Level 7, University of Ulster, Sep 2013 - June 2015
• Workplace Relations Bill Event, Legal-Island, 11 June 2015
• Shared Parental Leave and Holiday Pay, Emma-Jane Flannery of Arthur Cox Solicitors, 10 June
• The Impact of training within the Workplace, Pat Vance of AdVance Business Growth, 14 April
• Presentation Training - Polished Presentations with Grainne Cochrane, 16 & 30 April 2015
• Shared Parental Leave Event, Legal-Island, 26 March 2015
• Workplace Effectiveness and Communication, Shauna Hughes & Tessa Dent, Legal-Island, 20 & 21 Jan 2015  
• Northern Ireland Annual Review of Employment law, Legal-Island, Nov 2014
• Republic of Ireland Annual Review of Employment law, Legal-Island, Nov 2014
• How to Manage Difficult Conversations, Michele Groves, Legal-Island, 26 & 27 Feb 2014 
• CIPD Event: Performance & Leadership, Culture of High Performance, CIPD, 23 Jan 2014
• Writing Effective E-mails Certificate, Legal-Island, 20 Dec 2013
• PAMS System Training, Paul Donnelly, Hallmark, 4 Dec 2013
• Communication Skills, Kerri Bradley & Peter Fitzpatrick, Legal-Island, 2 Dec 2013 
• Republic of Ireland Annual Review of Employment law, Legal-Island, Nov 2013 
• Northern Ireland Annual Review of Employment law, Legal-Island, Nov 2013 
• CIPD Event: Employee Engagement, CIPD, 23 Oct 2013
• DEL Consultation: Employment Developments, DEL, 3 Oct 2013
• Comparative Employment Law, Legal-Island, 19 Sep 2013
• Discipline and Underperformance, Legal-Island, 12 Sep 2013
• LRA Seminar - Compulsory consideration of early conciliation, LRA, 5 Sep 2013
•  CMI Introduction to Management Award, Linzi Conway, 26 June - 1 July 2013
• Communication Fest: What we do, Kerry Murphy, Vanessa Porter, Peter Gilpin & Jacqui           McCaughan, Legal-Island, 25 June 2013
• Virtual Lectures, Barry Phillips, Legal-Island, 24 June 2013
• Employment Law & L-I Events, Kerri Bradley & Scott Alexander, Legal-Island, 24 June 2013
•  All about Absence & Disability NI, Legal-Island, 20 June 2013
• All About Absence ROI, Legal-Island, 13 June 2013
• Mock Industrial Tribunal, Legal-Island, 30 May 2013
•  NI HR Conference, Legal-Island, 15 May 2013
• Essentials of Employment Law ROI, Legal-Island, 25 April 2013
• Essentials of Employment Law NI, Legal-Island, 11 April 2013
•  Irish Language Pronunciation, Colm O'Kane, 14 Mar 2013
• Training Review - Creativity and Innovation, Kerri McOscar (Bradley), Legal-Island, 9 Jan 2013
• Training Review - Communications, Heather Stewart, Legal-Island, 9 Jan 2013
• Training Review - Networking, Barry Phillips, Legal-Island, 9 Jan 2013
• Maximising Creativity & Innovation, Philip Bain, ShredBank, 6 Dec 2012
• Fine Tuning Communication Skills, Linzi Conway, KTS Consultants, 6 Dec 2012
• Dynamic & Effective Networking, Ainsley Hirst & Barry Phillips, Legal-Island, 3 Dec 2012

Reading List

Read:

• Time to Think, Nancy Kline
• Allan Sugar, The Way i see it; Rants, Revelations and Rules for life.
• Ken Blanchard, Leadership and the one minute manager.
• Andy Bounds,The Snowball Effect, "communication techniques to make you unstoppable", 2013.
• Steven Covey, The 8th Habit, "From Effectiveness to Greatness", 2004.
• Steven Covey, 7 Habits of Highly Effective people, "An approach to solving personal and professional       problems", 1998
• Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman, First, Break all the Rules, "What the world's greatest Managers do differently", 1999.