Executive Education Program

Day 1 Session Design (6 hours)

  • Welcome and overview (20 min.)
  • "Collective bargaining in the 21st Century" keynote by Thomas Kochan (20 min.)
  • Roundtable dialogue on current realities (30 min.)
  • Process skills (30 min.)
  • Break (20 min.)
  • Simulation applying the skills – choice of health care or education simulation (80 min.)
  • Process improvement in collective bargaining (15 min.)
  • Break (20 min.)
  • Issue clusters 1-5 (select three) (20 min. each, total 60 min.)
  • Special focus on first contracts (20 min.)
  • Special focus on internal alignment with constituents (20 min.)
  • Special focus on roundtable issues (15 min.)
  • Concluding comments (10 min.)