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.)