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Northern Ireland
2019 - 2020
HIGHLIGHTS
cipd.co.uk/northernireland
REVIEW OF
2019-2020
Our team in NI (left to right) Avril Anderson,
Lee Ann Panglea and Suzanne Best
We closed our financial year on 30 June 2020, and Ensuring our members are kept informed and
while CIPD prepares its formal annual review, and aware of opportunities to learn and connect across
following our branch annual meeting in July, it’s a Northern Ireland is key and we continue to
good time for us to reflect on our highlights for the communicate via our monthly e-newsletter on the
year in delivering to our members in Northern first Tuesday of each month.
Ireland.
Looking ahead our priority remains the same:
Our purpose - as the professional body for HR and driving change in the world of work, led by a strong
people development and as a charity - is to community of people professionals across
champion better work and working lives. We Northern Ireland.
worked hard over the last 12 months, supported by
a growing community of around 3,500 members To this end, we continue to plan a programme of
and volunteers, to deliver on this purpose in activity that meets members' needs in such rapidly
Northern Ireland in many ways. changing times. We end our financial year by
saying goodbye and a huge thank you to our past
I’m very proud of how our networks have rallied in branch chair Lynn Carson and look forward to
recent months to continue to support our working with the new chair, Beth McMaw
members through such challenging times, and the Considine, vice chair Nicola Barber and the rest of
support and sharing across the HR community in the NI volunteer committee.
Northern Ireland has been inspiring.
As always, we would love to hear from you, after
We continue our work to improve the membership reading our highlights below, as to what else we
experience and the value people professionals get could or should be doing to champion better work
from being part of our Northern Ireland and working lives in Northern Ireland and would
professional community. encourage you to share your thoughts with me or
with Avril Anderson our Member, Networks and
Our branch volunteers delivered several engaging Communities Manager.
and informative events over the past year covering
a variety of topics including wellbeing and ethical Email us at northernireland@cipd.co.uk and keep
behaviour in the workplace, in addition to the up to date with our activity and events on the
launch of the member to member mentoring regional webpage.
scheme and student inductions.
We also continue to listen to our members’ needs
and as a result we recently launched our new
monthly employment law sessions, which have
been very well received.
Lee Ann Panglea
Head of CIPD Scotland and Northern Ireland
CIPD Northern Ireland Annual Conference The 2019 CIPD Northern Ireland Conference at the ICC, Belfast on 28 November was a huge success attracting more than 300 delegates, and as such was the CIPD’s biggest ever conference in Northern Ireland. This year’s conference focused on driving fair, meaningful and productive work. Speakers Opening the event, CIPD Membership Director David D’Souza impressed upon delegates the role of HR in creating environments where people feel empowered and can speak out, and the importance of putting good work at the heart of the profession. Angela Peacock, CEO, of PDT Global delivered an excellent keynote on reducing bias in the employee lifecycle and identifying the roadblocks to an inclusive workplace culture, and television presenter Jason Bradbury, delivered a thought- provoking closing session highlighting the many ways that AI and automation are impacting the way we live and work. We were most grateful for the support of a range of expert speakers for our breakout sessions and panel discussions, including speakers from the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Enterprise Holdings, Police Service NI, ACAS, PDT Global, Australia National University, Bank of Ireland, Macmillan Cancer Support, Queen’s University Belfast, Travelex, Nottingham Business School, Deloitte, IBM, Bard Pharmaceuticals, Ulster University CDE Global, and a number of CIPD experts. Many thanks to everyone who took the time to share their expertise. Sponsors and exhibitors We are very grateful to VANRATH who were our headline sponsors for a second consecutive year, to our media sponsor nijobfinder, to The Open University who sponsored our skilled work workstream, and to all our exhibitors for their support.
CIPD NI Awards 2020 We were delighted to kick off the 2020 awards campaign with a winner’s showcase breakfast in November, where previous winners shared the stories behind their entries, and how winning a CIPD NI Award has impacted their organisation. We had an excellent response to this year’s awards, with high-quality entries across all 11 categories, including new categories for HR SME of the Year and External Consultancy, demonstrating the measurable impact that people professionals are having across organisations in the public, private and third sectors in Northern Ireland. Congratulations to everyone who has reached the shortlist. As with so many events, sadly the 2020 CIPD NI Awards, which were due to take place at Titanic Belfast on Thursday 21 May had to be postponed due to the pandemic. The awards ceremony is being replaced by a virtual event which will take place on Thursday 1 October, and we very much hope that as many of you as possible will join us online to find out who this year’s winner are. Look on our social media channels and in our monthly newsletter for details. Sincere thanks to our headline sponsor, MCS Group, to our media sponsor nijobfinder, and to all of our sponsors who are continuing to support the awards.
Engagement Events Senior leader event, October Bridging the gap: tackling skill shortages in the fourth industrial revolution Our expert panel including Michael Gould from the Department for the economy, Gareth Hetherington, director of the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre, Northern Ireland Electricity Networks HR Director, Gordon Parkes, and CIPD skills adviser, Lizzie Crowley, joined CIPD’s senior stakeholder lead, Katie Jacobs, to discuss how organisations, government and education are approaching planning the skills requirements for the jobs of the future, and how to better prepare young people for the world of work. Read Katie’s blog about the session. LGBT inclusion at work, November We were delighted to co-host a roundtable discussion on LGBT inclusion at work with the Government Equalities Office to find out about the biggest challenges, barriers and opportunities that employers are facing when it comes to improving inclusion for LGBT+ people in work. Many thanks to everyone who attended and shared their experiences, which will help to inform public policy outcomes. Senior leader event, January How artificial intelligence (AI) and automation are shaping the world of work, associated ethical implications, and the role of HR professionals Our new NI branch chair, Beth McMaw Considine, facilitated this event where Lynne Raine and Martin Groom from PwC shared some of PwC’s latest research on what the world of work will look like in 2030, and CIPD’s Ed Houghton presented the latest CIPD research and insights on the role of the profession in 2030. As a follow-up to this event, we were delighted that Ed Houghton also had the opportunity to share some of our views on the challenges that people professionals face in creating the workplace of the future on the PwC NI website. Members have the opportunity to get involved in understanding and shaping the future of the people profession by taking part in the CIPD Hackathon from 10 - 20 August. Find out more.
CIPD NI in the press We have continued to work with the Belfast Telegraph/niobfinder throughout the year. Our Ask the Expert series of Q&A-led features allowed us to showcase our specialist expertise in a variety of areas including recruitment, job applications, contracts of employment, bonuses and incentives, inductions and coaching and mentoring. We’ve also had features in print and online on managing bullying and harrassment in the workplace, the menopause and most recently on planning the return to the workplace post Covid-19. Thanks very much to the Belfast Telegraph/nijobfinder team for all their support. CIPD NI Member Survey Many thanks to everyone who completed our member survey in May. We had an excellent response and the results are already helping us to shape our events programme and our contribution to public policy consultations in Northern Ireland for the coming year. We had strong support for three specialist networks, and are now starting to shape new networks for Organisational Development specialists and independent consultants which will be launched later this year, with a Learning and Development network being planned for 2021. Communication Website and social media and monthly update We are continuing to build our social media following, and have more than 8,500 followers on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook, where we keep members up to date with news from Northern Ireland, as well as the latest CIPD national campaigns, news and research. In addition, our monthly newsletter, which reaches more than 4,500 subscribers, provides updates on our events, CIPD reports, blogs, webinars and links to a range of useful resources on the first Tuesday of every month. Subscribe here.
CIPD NI Webinars
Since the lockdown we’ve been running a series of webinars for members in Northern Ireland offering support
with employment law and core HR skills.
CIPD NI Employment Law Webinar Series
In May we launched a series of employment law webinars,
delivered by some of Northern Ireland’s top employment lawyers,
to help members navigate through some of the new employment
law resulting to the pandemic and beyond.
Many thanks to Paul Gillen from Pinsent Masons, Louise McAloon
from Worthingtons Solicitors and Lisa Bryson from Eversheds
Sutherland for delivering the first three sessions.
Recordings of these sessions are available via the CIPD NI Website.
CIPD Profession Map Workshops on Core
Behaviours
We’re also running a series of eight interactive workshops on the
core behaviours of the New Profession Map, which kicked off in
June with a session on ethical practice.
CIPD NI Branch
The CIPD NI team continues to work closely with the NI branch which provides a programme of learning and
networking events and activities, delivered by a team of committed branch volunteers. For many of our
members, these events are their main face-to-face contact with the CIPD, and we hugely appreciate the efforts
of everyone involved to make these events engaging, welcoming and inclusive.
During the past 12 months, the NI branch has hosted events on support for menopausal women at work, a
mock tribunal, a panel discussion exploring CIPD’s research unto unethical behaviour in the workplace, and a
number of social events.
The branch also launched a mentoring programme in January, matching experienced HR practitioners with
those starting out in their HR careers. This initiative has been very successful, with the first cohort being filled,
and the branch are extending this round until January 2021.
Branch volunteers also visited CIPD centres in NI at the start of the 2019/20 academic year to welcome
students onto their qualifications and discuss the benefits of CIPD membership.
Finally a huge thank you to Lynn Carson, who is retiring as
branch chair after a long period of service within the branch, and
to everyone on the CIPD NI committee who has been involved
with setting up and supporting branch events, and our CIPD NI
events and
conferences throughout the year.
Keep up to date with our branch events in Northern Ireland on
our branch website.
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