Note:

The pre-registration is currently closed. If you would like to attend this event, please call NWPPA at 360-254-0109, and our staff will be happy to help you.

Who Should Attend:

General managers, labor relations managers, members of collective bargaining teams, HR professionals, labor relations professionals, and anyone who wants to truly understand negotiations from beginning to end.

Course Overview:

This three-part webinar series will cover three key areas of negotiations: preparation; use of the three dynamics of time, information and power; and closing the deal. By registering for all three webinars, you will receive a discount off the total registration fee.

Negotiations: Preparing for Success, May 11, 2017

Preparation is mandatory for success, especially at the bargaining table. This first of three segments covers both the big and little things that, with a bit of preparation, can make for a smoother and more successful collective bargaining experience. The instructor will cover a wide range of preparation activities, from selecting and training your negotiating team members, planning, facility selection, and records maintenance, to developing and vetting proposals, maintaining communication, and establishing ground rules.

Negotiations Boot Camp, May 18, 2017

Regardless of whether or not you use a win-win, interest-based, or even a win-lose approach, you will learn the proper use of the three basic dynamics of time, information, and power in both formal and informal negotiations, and as tools for resolving many different sorts of conflicts.

Negotiations: Closing the Deal, May 25, 2017

In this final webinar of the three-part series, attendees will learn some best practices for avoiding common unfair labor practices (ULPs). The instructor will cover many of the issues involved with impasses, bundling/packaging, mediation challenges, end runs, and management team solidarity.

Course Instructor:

Bob Oberstein, Labor Relations Manager, Snohomish County PUD

Course Schedule:

The webinars will be held May 11, 18, and 25, 2017, all from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time.

How to Participate:

Instructions to log in will be sent before each session.

Course Fees:

Each course has been approved for 1.5 (General) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute.

The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.