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Local CIPD Branch Events - Do you attend?

Chloe

Good morning,  I am trying to find if people out there value the events that the local CIPD branches hold,  I have been part of the committee for our local group for sometime now and am finding it increasingly frustrating,  we hold around 8 events a year on a wide variety of topics, but find that we have an average attendance of around 15 people attend each one.  

We are also finding it incredibly difficult to find people who are willing to volunteer to join the committee, which means much bigger workload for the few that have joined, and also I worry that we are not putting on events on topics that are interesting to those who are new to HR, we do ask for ideas from all those that attend, but very few people are even willing to contribute these!

There is also very little recognition from CIPD for the work that the volunteers do (not even a Christmas Card!)

I would be interested in getting your feedback,  

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  • I've been to two events.

    One was an 'Employment Law update', given by a firm of local solicitors, whom I assume get asked to do this 'annual update'. Nothing they presented was in any way particularily new and some of the presentation was an attempt to see what was inside the Genie's lamp for the coming year. Not only that they were unable to answer some relatevely simple questions about dealing with long-term sickness absence and a couple of answers they gave were incorrect.

    When I lived in Ireland I also went to one in XXXX city, some 60 miles away. It was a total heap of disorganised chaos. It was advertised to start at 7,pm or whatever. The chair didn't address the gathered folk at well past 7pm, which in fairness was something quite common in Ireland where little if anything started on time. However, it was being held in a university and students kept entering the hall, often in groups, and pairs, wandering around the hall finding seats and so on for most of the session - well after the advertised start time of course. Absolutely no attempt was made to stop this.

    Needless to say I've not bothered with another.
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  • I've been to two events.

    One was an 'Employment Law update', given by a firm of local solicitors, whom I assume get asked to do this 'annual update'. Nothing they presented was in any way particularily new and some of the presentation was an attempt to see what was inside the Genie's lamp for the coming year. Not only that they were unable to answer some relatevely simple questions about dealing with long-term sickness absence and a couple of answers they gave were incorrect.

    When I lived in Ireland I also went to one in XXXX city, some 60 miles away. It was a total heap of disorganised chaos. It was advertised to start at 7,pm or whatever. The chair didn't address the gathered folk at well past 7pm, which in fairness was something quite common in Ireland where little if anything started on time. However, it was being held in a university and students kept entering the hall, often in groups, and pairs, wandering around the hall finding seats and so on for most of the session - well after the advertised start time of course. Absolutely no attempt was made to stop this.

    Needless to say I've not bothered with another.
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