Labor Management Relations: Leading Change and Moving Forward
Schedule
No offerings available for this course
Overview
This seminar will explore the lessons learned from past management/union partnerships, refresh your collaboration skills and create a vision for your future labor management relationship. Supervisors, managers and labor relations professionals are encouraged to attend with their union leaders to foster collaborative learning.
Through experiential activities, small and large group discussions and skill practice you will: explore successful partnership experiences; analyze the current state of your relationship; identify the values and behaviors that support working together; develop effective negotiation techniques; practice skills for dealing with difficult behaviors and resolving conflicts; and learn collaborative problem-solving skills.
How You Will Benefit
- Examine successes and pitfalls of past partnership efforts
- Identify strategies for developing a collaborative relationship
- Practice behaviors that support effective negotiations
- Identify strategies for dealing with difficult behaviors
- Develop effective problem-solving techniques
- Create a vision for the future of your labor management relationship and an action plan to reach that vision
- Network and learn from managers, union officials and labor relations professionals across the federal government
Who Should Attend
Federal labor relations professionals, union leaders, union stewards, first line supervisors or middle managers who are engaged with union officials.
Managers are encouraged to attend with their union counterparts. Tuition will be discounted when you attend as a labor management pair or team.