Learning Objectives

• Learn the State of Unions in the U.S.
• Participate in a live Role-play scenarios that test/reinforce retained knowledge and help to build managerial confidence
• Recognize Cyclical patterns of workplace relations that are repeatable and predictable for every site
• Understand six basic employee knowledge needs, and three questions employees ask daily
• Learn the science of influential communications & persuasion

Program Components

• Perfect Storm: eOrganizing™
• Leverage of Leadership™
• Lawful Conversations for Managers™

PERT: Issues Identification and Action Planning™

A mini-simulation that involves supervisors/managers directly in the identification of specific issues that could be used by employees as reasons to sign union authorization cards, and specific actions to resolve them.  Management decides which recommended actions will be executed, who is responsible and completed a completion date, as well as, which actions will not be executed and why, and which actions management needs more time to study.

Learning Objectives

• Specific issues within your company that could lead to card signing.
• Tactics organizers use to acquire signed cards and the ease of obtaining them.
• Ways to develop detailed action plans for resolving those specific issues.
• Closed-loop management decision-making process involving assignment of specific actions, timelines and follow-up.

PERT: PML Case Study™

An MBA-like paper and pencil case study that pits teams against each other and the clock. Involves participants in decision-making about specific strategies that will win or lose a union campaign for the company, including the impact of management actions on Company support won or lost during a simulated campaign to expose the consequences on employee votes of those actions. Available in two versions: manufacturing or retail.

Learning Objectives

• Issues, conditions and management actions that lead to union campaigns.
• Impact of leadership decisions made during the case study on votes in the simulated campaign to expose the consequences on company support and votes in an election.
• Legal risks of management decisions made during a campaign.
• Key aspects and concepts of the National Labor Relations Act in the US along with current rule-making by the board.
• Best decisions to make in each stage of the simulated campaign

PERT: Hit the Ground Running™

In an intimate setting, senior-level labor relations experts role-play with each individual for client-tailored results. Each interactive role-playing session uses actual client-scenarios (pre-petition and post-petition) to stretch your supervisor’s communications competence, management capacity and leadership skills and help raise the confidence level when addressing questions or concerns about unions with employees.

Learning Objectives

• Experiential learning about the best ways to converse with employees about issues, unions and the inconvenient truths of collective bargaining.
• Intense role playing using scenarios that we create with your specific workplace issues.
• Participants develop their own working list of actions for each of the first five days upon the first sign of credible card-signing activity and for each of the first five days after a NLRB direction of election has been received.
• Development of the company’s preferred list of actions for pre-petition and post-petition.
• Roles and responsibilities, communication trees, and issue-specific scenarios, role-plays and discussion.

PERT: Lawful Conversations for Managers™

Highly effective experiential learning about the best ways to converse confidently and lawfully with employees about issues, unions and the inconvenient truths of collective bargaining. PML will facilitate an intense role playing session using scenarios that we create using the client’s workplace issues. Through iterative learning, leaders get better in their own learning.

Learning Objectives

• Experiential learning about the best ways to converse with employees about issues, unions and the inconvenient truths of collective bargaining.
• Intense role playing using scenarios that we create with your specific workplace issues.
• Develop messaging and control tone during the role play exercise for future application.
• Individual and group feedback for iterative learning and application in the real world.

Learn More

To speak with one of our dedicated staff to learn more about how we can facilitate one or more of our PERT™ programs at your location or at your next leadership meeting, contact us today.