Staff News

Over the past few months, employees, customers, and communities have been nominating colleagues across the three categories below. Our VIP Selection Panel have been reviewing these nominations and have selected the following finalists for each category in this round:   

The hugely successful Prom Pop Up appeal is returning, to help ensure every young person can shine on prom night with an outfit of their dreams.

A reminder that our fourth Guided Journaling session is being held on Teams on Tuesday 19 March at noon.

This session will be focussing on how our choices shape us- who we are and who we become. Come and join us to help find out more about how our choices shape us.

The VIP Awards project team are looking for musicians to help them celebrate at the very first annual VIP Awards ceremony.

It will take part at the King Street Halls on 28th June 2024, and they are looking for musicians who will be able to provide music as finalists and guests arrive registration and refreshments and then also as they enter the main hall to take their seats for the big event.

If you play an instrument and are able to give up some of your time to help out from 2.30pm on the day until the event starts please get in-touch. 

Don't forget you can still nominate someone for our current round but this will close shortly so get those nominations in.

International Women’s Day is a celebration of the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. Each year, this day serves as a powerful reminder of the progress made towards gender equality and highlights the work that still needs to be done.

A reminder that our third Guided Journaling session is being held on Teams this Thursday at 9.30am.

This session will be focussing on how we can communicate to get our message heard. We often have things to say but are afraid of saying the wrong thing. Sometimes we say them and wish we’d said them differently. Come and join us to help find a way of saying the things you need to say.

We hope you found the cyber week messages interesting and useful.  It has hopefully shown how a single action can lead to disastrous consequences for an organisation and continue to cause problems over a long period before normal services are restored.

Today we will look at how we would begin to recover from the cyber-attack.

Once the malware has been completely eradicated from all of the systems, the process of recovery can begin. – this would be a bit like refurbishing a striped building

Are you looking to develop your skills this year?

With the support of Scottish Government funding, the Orkney Local Employability Partnership are excited to offer free opportunities for parents to develop their skills and achieve a qualification to help support their current job, or to progress in their role.

Today we will look at some of the things that are likely to happen during a successful attack.