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Inform
the newsletter of the south-east of scotland branch
Issue 93 Feb 14
From the Chair
A very warm welcome to 2014. As always, the content of this newsletter
brings you a round-up of recent branch events provided by our events team,
our special interest teams and our geographical teams from West Lothian
and The Borders. We aim to deliver topics of relevance in an engaging
format and thrive on your feedback, so please keep your comments flowing.
Also, please let us know of potential topics for future events - we are
entering into our annual planning round to create the programme for
2014/2015 and welcome ideas for future events.
In November, Peter Cheese, our CIPD Chief Executive visited us to
formally launch CIPD Scotland (CIPDS). A number of well-attended and
well-received events took place in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
Currently a core focus for the CIPDS is the enhancement of our CIPD
strategy for Scotland, and central to this must be the two annual flagship
events: the CIPD Scottish Conference in Glasgow (6th and 7th March) and
the Student ‘Future Talent’ Conference, which took place on 22nd February
in Edinburgh. Last year, the CIPD Scottish Conference was awarded
‘The Best Conference’ at the Scottish event awards in September, and the
2014 conference planning group aim to ensure that this year’s event is
equally, if not more, engaging! This year our keynote speeches will be
delivered by Peter Cheese and Stephan Thoma, Global Learning
& Development Director with Google.
I hope the above provides a variety of events that are
of interest and look forward to seeing you at an event
over the forthcoming months. If, at an event, you see
an individual who is wearing a committee membership
badge, please do introduce yourself.
With best wishes
Lorna Prince,
Chair, South East of Scotland Branch
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Mentoring programme
update
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Mediation Group
re-launch
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Branch Evenings
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Group events
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CIPD Scotland
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Gallery
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Diary
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Branch Mentoring Programme Update
Mentoring within business is a growing trend and something that nationally the CIPD are keen to
promote. However, there often is a stumbling block over the definition and reality of what mentoring is
all about. Most people’s experience of managing or supervising others invariably includes the skills of
sharing their experience, guiding specific learning and offering advice – in other words mentoring.
Author, John C Crosby said, "Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the
right direction."
At the CIPD South East of Scotland Branch we’ve already begun the process of training and providing
guidance on how to mentor and how to become a mentee. Over the coming year we plan on evolving
our mentoring programme and to provide more opportunities for future mentors and mentees to meet.
In the meantime, we are on the look-out for mentors who can help us right now. Mentoring within the
CIPD is a chance to reflect on what skills and expertise you have that you may have forgotten about.
What is now easy and second nature to you is a huge learning curve to someone else, and by sharing
how you did it, guiding how someone can do it their way and what pitfalls they can avoid – is a
development experience for you both.
“Better than a thousand days of diligent study is one day with a great teacher.”
Japanese Proverb
If you have a desire to make a personal difference to someone’s career development, have time to
offer and can support someone over the coming months, then we’d love to hear from you. Contact
the mentoring team at [email protected] to offer your services as a mentor or to find
out when our next Introduction to Mentoring will take place.
Kate Flory
Mentoring Group
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Mediation Group re-launches
The Branch is re-launching its Mediation Group with a view to providing CIPD members with
information on how mediation can be used in the workplace. The main purpose is to provide a forum
to explore and discuss the benefits of using mediation skills in the workplace.
Mediation is being used more in the workplace as organisations are recognising it can be used to
resolve disputes which include both potential grievances and issues related to performance, capability
and conduct which would usually be dealt with through disciplinary procedures.
The use of mediation in individual employment disputes provides flexibility in how it can be used and
it is a confidential process offering the opportunity to have open and honest discussion. Mediation can
also provide a speedy response to conflict and can allow disputes to be dealt with before they escalate
and become potentially damaging disputes in the organisation. It also offers a cheaper option to
develop an agreed outcome rather than the risk of proceeding to the employment tribunal process,
which can involve significant financial costs to the organisation and the individual.
We have two events planned for March and May which we look forward to seeing you at – see page
4 for further details.
Derek Liddell,
Mediation Group Lead
Branch Evenings
Best Practice in Managing Redundancy and
Reorganisation
Thursday 13 March
This event will take place at Davidson Chalmers, 12 Hope Street, Edinburgh from 6pm.
To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
Good Absence Management Practice
Wed 2 April
This event will be presented by Kim Pattullo, from HBJ Gateley, at HBJ Gateley, 19 Canning Street,
Edinburgh. We are pleased to be joined by members of the Institute of Hospitality Scotland for this
event. To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
Membership Advice Clinic
Thursday 3 April
The venue for the next branch Membership Advice Clinic will be confirmed shortly but will be a
central Edinburgh location. To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
Further information on membership and upgrading can be found on the CIPD web-site at
http://www.cipd.co.uk/membership/
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Group Events
Borders Group – Everything you’ve always wanted to
know about Pay and Reward but were too afraid to ask –
Tuesday 11 March
This content of this interactive workshop on Pay & Reward will include
• Unfair pay and a pragmatic approach for managing this including discussion on benchmarking,
pay structures and policy development
• Pay structure pitfalls
• Linking Performance & Pay; is there an easy way?
• Driving cultural change
• Paying Bonuses or rather when it doesn’t pay out!
We are delighted to welcome Lorna Ashworth, Managing Director of Ashworth Black, an
experienced Pay & Reward specialist to share her knowledge and experience with us and to answer
your questions on pay & reward. Lorna is keen to keep the session as interactive as possible, inviting
questions in advance of the session as well as throughout. Lorna is looking to cover a range of
common Pay & Reward issues such as unfair pay, pay structure pitfalls, the desire to link pay &
performance and problems with bonus schemes not paying out.
Please note that this event will start with refreshments and networking from 5pm and finish at 7pm.
To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
Mediation Group – Where Mediation skills can fit in to the
modern workplace
Monday 17 March
The new group has scheduled two meetings and the first meeting is on Monday 17 March at
6.30pm at Anderson Strathern’s offices, 1 Rutland Court Lane, Edinburgh EH3 8EY, where the topic
will be ‘Where Mediation skills can fit in to the modern Workplace’.
The main speaker will be Graham Boyack, Director of the Scottish Mediation Network, and he will
discuss how mediation can be used in the workplace and how you can learn about becoming a
mediator. There will also be an opportunity for questions and discussion, so you will be able to find
out more out about how you can use mediation skills in your role and in your organisation.
The next date for your diary is Monday 19 May where we will be holding a ‘Mock mediation’ where
you will be able to see mediation skills being used in practice. The venue for this event will also be
at Anderson Strathern’s office.
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Group Events
West Lothian Group
Employment Law - Redundancy
Wednesday 19 March
We are very excited to confirm that Craig Bennison will be joining us again to give an Employment
Law update. Craig qualified as a barrister in 1997 and since this time has specialised in Employment
Law and Industrial Relations. Craig is Head of Litigation at Empire HR. This event will take place at
West Lothian College Livingston.
To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
POD Group – Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity
(VUCA) in the organisation and lessons from the field (PD)
Wednesday 26 March
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Unilever are a truly global company with a portfolio of famous brands and a proud heritage.
As Unilever moves forward they have become increasingly vocal about their commitment to
sustainability, something which they see as being at the heart of their business model. This starts with
leadership and the company have become pioneers in developing people and leaders who can thrive
in an ever changing world, one many commentators are increasingly describing as a Volatile,
Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous ‘VUCA’ world.
The People and Organisational Development (POD) group of the CIPD South East of Scotland branch
are delighted to host one of Unilever’s most prominent experts on VUCA, Mr Geoff McDonald, Global
Vice President HR for Marketing, Communications, Sustainability, and Talent who will talk about his
company’s approach to business and leadership in a VUCA world.
This unique event promises to give huge insights to everyone interested in leadership and business in
the 21st century. This event is expected to be extremely popular so book your place early to avoid
disappointment!
To book your place visit the Events page on the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/events
CIPD Scotland Focus
I hope that 2014 is off to a great start for you all. We’ve
hit the ground running at CIPD Scotland, and are
working on a number of projects designed to enhance
member experience and increase our impact in
Scotland.
Bookings are well underway for
our Scottish Conference at the
Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow
on 6 and 7 March. Speakers
include Stephan Thoma, Learning
& Development Director at
Google EMEA; Jeff Turner,
Learning
and
Development
Director, Facebook EMEA; BT Resourcing Director, HR
Transformation, Suzanne Hester; Professor David
Clutterbuck, and Peter Cheese and Perry Timms from
the CIPD.
This year’s conference includes an additional
networking opportunity – a welcome reception in the
magnificent Glasgow City Chambers, hosted by
Glasgow City Council, which will get the conference off
to a great start, and allow delegates to start networking
as soon as they arrive in Glasgow. Our Gala Dinner the
following night will be another excellent night, and we’re
delighted to have comedienne, Jo Caulfield, entertaining
us after dinner. Places can be booked via the link on our
website – www.cipd.co.uk/scotland
Our planning group for our 2013 conference has been
awarded a prestigious CIPD Showcase Network Award,
recognising their superb effort in running last year’s
award-winning event. The award will be formally
presented to the team by Dean Royles, CIPD Board
Chair, at the welcome reception in March.
Congratulations to the team, and congratulations to
CIPD Members and long-time volunteers Ron Skea
(Mid Scotland) and Tony Reeves (South East Scotland),
both of whom have been awarded an individual
Certificate in Volunteering.
Our ‘Future HR Talent’ student conference at
Edinburgh University Business School on 22 February
was a sell-out event attended by over 140 students
from all over Scotland and featured first class keynote
speakers, a prestigious HR Directors Q&A panel, and a
choice of workshops.
In the next few weeks we will be announcing details of
several new events and conferences taking place
throughout 2014, including events on engagement,
culture and risk, and Scotland’s skilled future. Details will
be available via the website, branch newsletters and via
the CIPD Scotland LinkedIn Group, which I would
encourage you to join if you haven’t done so already.
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We’re also close to announcing the launch of Inspiring
the Future in Scotland with an event this spring. It’s
going to be a great way of helping young school leavers
to get into the workplace, and we have an ambitious
target of engaging 500 CIPD members from across
Scotland in this initiative, so watch out for details!
I’m delighted to let you know that we have three new
members in the CIPD Scotland team – Market
Development Manager, Lee Ann Panglea, who is new to
the CIPD; Senior Co-ordinator, Suzanne Best, who is
currently Administrator for our West of Scotland branch,
and Heather Melville, South East Scotland branch, who
has agreed to take on the new voluntary Secretary role,
monitoring and supporting corporate governance at a
branch and national level in Scotland.
Our branch events teams all met together recently for
a workshop aimed at sharing best practice in branch
events, and everyone agreed that it was a really useful
day, with lots of new ideas that will be considered when
planning events in the 2014/2015 branch events
calendars.
One of the key points that everyone was keen to
highlight to members is that CIPD branch events are
open to all CIPD members, regardless of the location of
your own branch. Our website now includes a six month
pan-Scotland events calendar, covering all free and paid
for events, so do look to see if there is something outwith your branch that would appeal, whether from a
learning and/or from a networking perspective.
I also chaired a strategy day for the Chairs of the four
Scottish branches earlier this month, where myself and
John McGurk shared the CIPD Scotland strategy, and
agreed with branches how this will be delivered at both
a national and local level in Scotland.
I do hope to meet you at one of our forthcoming
events, and as ever, would encourage you to get in
touch with me if you’d like to discuss how CIPD
Scotland can better support you. You can email me at
[email protected].
Donald Gordon
Chair CIPD Scotland
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Gallery
Employment Law Update
Thanks to Napier University for hosting our yearly keynote guest
event with Toni McAlindin and her overview of current employment
law on 13 November. She navigated choppy seas from Tribunal Fees
to TUPE with her legendary expertise and gave us practical
assessments of changes that are or might be round the corner.
For those who attended, and for those who could not, Toni’s
Quiz and Answers are available on the Branch website at
http://www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland/newsletter.htm
Toni McAlindin
Grateful thanks to Malcolm Steele of Mearns and Company,
Chartered Financial Planners, for supporting the Branch and
providing an excellent buffet.
Bob Stewart, Events Group
Toni and Sophie Mears from the
Branch Events Team
Open Space and the art of self-organising groups
In November the People and Organisational Development (POD)
group held an event at the Royal Society of Edinburgh. The event was
designed to demonstrate the concept and tool that is Open Space
and how to apply this to the work-place. The event was thoughtprovoking and created a lot of discussion. Open Space is an
approach that can be applied to many organisations and this event
demonstrated the power it can give to all individuals enabling them to
have a voice in the work-place. But of key importance in making it
work is to have a key big topic and a well-structured question to
generate conversation, dialogue and collective outcomes.
Andrew McCaffery, POD Group
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POD event at the Royal Society
of Edinburgh
Student Prize-Winners
The 2013/14 Student Prizegiving event which recognises the
achievements of HR Students in Edinburgh and the Lothians was
held on 20 November.
The event was attended by the prize winners, Paul Campbell and
(apologies from) Samuel Holland (Edinburgh University), Scott Justice
and Jade Chin (Edinburgh Napier University) and Julia Simpson
(West Lothian College) plus guests. Lecturers from the
establishments were also in attendance along with members of the
CIPD committee. Congratulations again to the winners of 2013/2014
and all the best in your future careers.
A good evening was had by all and our thanks go to Biggart Baillie for hosting the event including providing
excellent facilities and refreshments
Katie Taylor, Branch Events Team
Employment Law – disciplinary and grievance procedures
David Ogilvy, Head of Employment Law, and Elizabeth Bremner, Senior Solicitor, from Turcan Connell presented
at the West Lothian group's third event since they re-launched this year. The event took place on 27 November
at West Lothian College in Livingston. The events are seen as an ideal opportunity for HR Practitioners and
students in West Lothian to meet, hear and discuss current HR topics.
David and Elizabeth started the event with some useful
sources to find information on disciplinary and
grievance and went into the potentially fair reasons and
the code and guidance on disciplinary and grievance.
David and Elizabeth then encouraged the attendees to
discuss some queries which can occur when dealing
with disciplinary and grievances. Some examples
discussed are should a grievance be heard before the
disciplinary grievance begins and can the employee
stop the disciplinary process by being signed off sick?
The discussion topics allowed the audience to share
their experiences and David and Elizabeth were on
hand to share their expertise. David and Elizabeth gave
some excellent guidance on the subject and gave some
very helpful hints.
David and Elizabeth with Sam Leek
Caroline McInally. West Lothian Group
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Christmas Party
The branch Christmas Party took place this year on
3 December and included the ever-popular Pub Quiz.
Our thanks go to Morton Fraser for hosting this event
at their Quartermile offices.
Donald Lindsay, Branch Events Team and Innes Clark
from Morton Fraser.
Mock Tribunal
'Dismissing fairly - internet and email abuse'
At the first branch event of the new year, partners
Michael McLaughlin, Paul Brown and the
Employment Law team of DWF Biggart Baillie
gave a real insight to the challenges and
processes that form a 'typical' Employment
Tribunal.
The prospect of an Employment Tribunal can be
daunting for any HR practitioner with the main
A well-attended event in January
worry often being the fear of the unknown and
what lies in store for the employer along with the ever present burning questions such as; Has sufficient
investigation taken place?, Was enough time allowed?, Is our policy fit for purpose and has a consistent
approach been adopted?
This event sought to answer some of these questions and alleviate these fears by giving the capacity
audience an idea of what to expect at a tribunal within a welcoming and accessible atmosphere.
The amusing script and excellent standard of acting managed to educate and entertain with more than
one or two laughs along the way. It was clear that a great deal of time had been spent on the
preparation for this event and special thanks go to the whole team for that and their generous
sponsorship.
With plenty of opportunity for audience questions and participation, the event reinforced the need for
a clear suite of read and understood employee policies and for fair, thorough and well documented
processes to be followed when dealing with all disciplinary issues, no matter how straightforward they
initially seem to be!
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Donald Lindsay, Events Team
The flip-side of the Learning Culture
Learning within organisations is a fundamental business activity yet in the current environment it is
arguably more challenging than ever. Benjamin Budd, Training Manager from The Scottish Government
facilitated a hugely informative event held in the offices of MBM Commercial on 22 January.
The event entitled ‘The flip side of learning’ challenged attendees to consider existing ideas about
learning within organisations. The group considered learning methods as well as cultural issues around
learning. As ever the wealth of experience
amongst the group proved invaluable and there
was a huge amount of opportunity to exchange
good ideas.
Overall Ben provided us with some thought
provoking insight and facilitated a great session.
I would like to thank him on behalf of the POD
group for giving us his time and also wish to
thank MBM Commercial for providing us with a
fantastic venue.
David Jack, POD Team
Ben Budd and David Jack
Resource and Talent Management
Gill Nairne, HR Manager from Selex ES, presented at the West Lothian Group's
first event of 2014. on 29 January at West Lothian College in Livingston.
The events are seen as an ideal opportunity for HR Practitioners and students in
West Lothian to meet, network, hear and discuss current HR topics.
Gill started the event with an introduction to Selex ES giving us an insight into the
company’s business, their values and what Talent Management means to Selex
ES.
Gill gave us an in depth insight into Selex ES performance development,
management review and succession planning processes and provided us with
information about Selex ES Development Centres and Graduate and Apprentice
Programmes.
Sam Leek, West Lothian Group
Lead, and Gill Nairne, from
Selex ES.
The discussion topic allowed the audience to experience-share and Gill was on
hand to share her knowledge and expertise. Gill gave some excellent guidance
and advice on the subject and gave the audience a real insight into some excellent
talent management tools.
The West Lothian Branch is holding their fourth event on Wednesday 19th March
2014 at West Lothian College. The speaker for the evening is Craig Bennison from
Empire HR presenting an update on employment law with a focus on redundancy.
Please email Sam Leek [email protected] to book your place.
Caroline McInally. West Lothian Group
L-R: Kirsten McCloskey, Janet
McGregor, Margaret Higgins,
Sam Leek, Sophia Westerhuis
and Caroline McInally.
Building Capability and Developing Leaders to support Change
The modern city-centre offices of Pinsent Masons was the venue for the latest event in the CIPD programme, Building
Capability and developing leaders to support change, which took place on 4 February. Gary Paterson, Global L&D
Manager for Aegon, was the guest speaker at the event which moved away from the HR focus of recent events to
concentrate on Learning and Development. Due to late advertising, the event was attended by a smaller number of
delegates than usual however this allowed a more interactive discussion to take place with plenty of debate amongst
the attendees.
After a short networking session, there was a welcome from James Craig from the
Employment team at Pinsent Masons before he handed over to Gary to begin. The
session was split into 2 sections, the first being Capability Development. Gary introduced
and explained a simple capability tool which is used at Aegon to assess the skill level of
team members and identify gaps in proficiency. He argued that using the tool is an
effective way of showing where to concentrate efforts and invest time, before going on to
explain some of the more practical advantages, such as offering a more structured
training programme and allowing employees to track their progress. He concluded this
section by speaking about the impact the tool has had on organisations such as FNZ,
Scottish Widows, JP Morgan and Aegon. The delegates were happy to comment on their
own experiences of using capability tools and were interested to hear how they could be
implemented in their own organisations.
Gary Paterson, Aegon
Gary then moved on to the next part of the session, “Developing leaders to support change.” Here, he gave an
overview of the changes that have gone on in Aegon and how these have been facilitated. Again, Gary provided an
interesting summary, complete with suggestions of how Aegon’s approach could be adopted in other organisations.
After some closing comments from Ricardo Mateus, the evening was brought to a close. This was another interesting
event, and the smaller attendance numbers meant the discussion was enriched by contributions from the delegates.
The CIPD events team would like to thank Gary Paterson for the interesting presentation and Pinsent Masons for
providing an excellent venue.
Charlene Revie, Branch Events Team
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Important update on Associate membership
From January 2014, all students successfully completing a CIPD awarded Certificate or Diploma
(or an equivalent approved university programme) will automatically be upgraded to Associate
membership. This will also be retrospectively applied to anyone that has already completed a relevant
CIPD qualification. To be eligible, all students will need to ensure that their membership is current.
As a result of this change the upgrading process at Associate-level has been withdrawn. Previous
student members of the CIPD will be awarded Associate membership should they hold the relevant
qualification and rejoin.
Associate membership is the first level of professional membership of the CIPD and allows
individuals to use the designation Assoc CIPD after their name to showcase their credentials.
It’s an achievement that ensures that they stand out in their career and is respected and valued by
employers. It also emphasises their commitment to continuing professional development and a
desire to stay current.
Associate membership will continue to provide a pathway to Chartered membership for those with
a recognised postgraduate-level qualification and/or the relevant experience.
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For further information, see
http://www.cipd.co.uk/membership/upgrading/update-associate-membership.aspx
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Adopt an Intern continues to connect talented graduates with cross-sector organisations throughout
Scotland, and beyond, by providing meaningful paid internships. They closed 2013 by securing their 500th
intern with a paid graduate placement, made possible through financial support from the Scottish
Government.
Adopt an Intern’s placements are designed to help companies, from as small as a one-person start-up to
multi-nationals, ‘adopt a graduate’. Contracts last a minimum of 240-hours and are advertised and
shortlisted entirely by Adopt an Intern; this allows businesses a low-cost and low-risk opportunity to access
graduate talent. Graduates benefit from hands-on, practical work experience, which enhances their skills
and improves their CV, making them more employable for subsequent work – 76% of AAI interns go on to
find permanent graduate-level employment immediately following their internship.
Over the past 4 years, Adopt an Intern have been working to establish a fair, sustainable and accessible
paid internship culture in Scotland. In 2014 Adopt an Intern plan to continue to create more opportunities
for graduates and to contribute to the sustainable economic growth of Scotland by working with many more
businesses.
Adopt an Intern have been nominated for two 2014 Scottish Business Awards: Growth Strategy of the Year
and Female Entrepreneur of the Year.
Email: [email protected] Website: www.adoptanintern.org.uk
Allsorts
Committee Meeting Hosts
We would like to thank DWF Biggart Baillie for hosting our 28
November and Right Management for hosting our meeting on
16 January.
If your organisation would like to host a committee meeting,
please contact the Branch Administrator,
[email protected] for further information.
Branch e-update
CIPD are now issuing quarterly branch e-newsletters to all our
branch members. This is a short bulletin which keeps you up-todate with the latest information on what’s going on in your local
branch.
To ensure that your e-mail address is up-to-date to receive this,
please go to www.cipd.co.uk log in (or register if you have not
already done so), and select ‘My Profile’ from the Site Map dropdown menu at the top of the page.
We are now able to offer advertising space in this publication.
If your organisation would like to promote itself to our 2300
members in the Lothians and Borders area, please contact
the Branch Administrator for further information:
[email protected]
Branch web-site
The branch web-site can be accessed at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland for full information on branch
events and special interest and geographical groups, the latest
edition of 'Inform' newsletter, and committee contact details.
E-mail Updates
If you would like to register to receive regular updates on branch
and other events, please go to the branch web-site home page at
www.cipd.co.uk/branch/sescotland and click on the grey box.
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General Information and Bookings
Branch evening meetings normally open at 6pm with a finger buffet. The main event starts at 6.30pm,
followed by an opportunity to network, generally closing around 8pm.
It helps our planning greatly if you can remember to e-mail the branch administrator at least 5 days in
advance of any branch evening you wish to attend, with your membership number and a note of any
special requirements. Please remember your membership cards for registering at branch events. For all
other events, please contact the person listed.
Cancellations should be made before 5pm the day prior to the event in order that the space can be offered
to someone else. If you arrive at an event without booking you may be turned away as there are limited
spaces available at some of the venues we use.
Attendance at branch evenings is free of charge to all CIPD branch members. Guests/non-members are
welcome to attend for a charge of £10 payable at the door. Students may attend free of charge.
For information on facilities/access at venues for attendees with disabilities, please contact the venue
directly. Please note that in extreme circumstances, diary events may be subject to change without prior
notification.
March
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Tuesday 11 March
Borders Group
Everything you have always wanted to know about Pay
and Reward but were too afraid to ask
Speaker: Lorna Ashworth, Ashworth Black
Venue: Scottish Borders Council, Newton St Boswells
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor: Scottish Borders Council
Thursday 13 March
Branch Evening
Best practice in managing redundancy and
reorganisation
Presented by: Davidson Chalmers
Venue: Davidson Chalmers, 12 Hope Street, Edinburgh
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor: Davidson Chalmers
Monday 17 March
Mediation Group
Where mediation skills can fit in to the modern
workplace
Speaker: Graham Boyack, Director of the Scottish
Mediation Network
Venue: Anderson Strathern, 1 Rutland Court Lane,
Edinburgh
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor: Anderson Strathern
Chartered Institute
of Personnel and Development
Wednesday 19 March
West Lothian Group
Employment law - redundancy
Speaker: Craig Bennison, Empire HR
Venue: West Lothian College, Livingston
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor: West Lothian College
Wednesday 26 March
People and Organisation Development Group
Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity (VUCA)
Speaker: Geoff McDonald, Global Vice President HR,
Unilever plc
Venue: The Royal Society of Edinburgh,
22-26 George Street, Edinburgh
E-mail: [email protected]
Supported by: The Royal Society of Edinburgh
April
Wednesday 2 April
Branch Evening
Good absence management practice
Speaker: Kim Pattullo, HBJ Gateley
Venue: HBJ Gateley, 19 Canning Street, Edinburgh
E-mail: [email protected]
Sponsor: HBJ Gateley
Thursday 3 April
Membership advice clinic
Venue: tbc
E-mail: [email protected]
PLEASE NOTE:
that all branch events
can also be booked via
the branch web-site at
www.cipd.co.uk/
branch/
sescotland
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Tel: 020 8612 6200 Fax: 020 8612 6201
Email: [email protected] Website: www.cipd.co.uk
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