Enterprise Agreement Making: Strategic planning and negotiation skills

 

This session focuses on preparing and implementing your organisation’s enterprise agreement strategy and negotiation skills.

This is a hands-on course and it builds on knowledge already acquired from attending Enterprise Agreement Making: Legal aspects and strategic overview.

Nevertheless, the half-day program can also be taken independently by those who already have a good grasp of the legal requirements of agreement making. You can also attend both morning and afternoon courses on 28 April.

Attendees will receive a FREE copy of the newly released handbook,

"Enterprise Bargaining under the Fair Work Act" (RRP $65)

LEARNING OUTCOMES

You will:

  • Learn how to prepare and implement an enterprise agreement making strategy;

  • Find out what to research, how to obtain support from management, how to communicate with employees and how to prepare for industrial action;

  • Learn how to prepare for and commence bargaining;

  • Develop your negotiation skills in an interactive role play;

  • Draw on the experiences of fellow course delegates from a range of organisations and industries.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND

It is recommended your bargaining team attend this Enterprise Agreement Making course, alongside other managers or staff with planning and operational support roles.

Enterprise Agreement Making will especially suit managers, consultants & staff in:

  • Employee & Workplace Relations / IR

  • Operations / Policy / Project areas

  • HR

  • In-house legal

  • People / Culture / OD and

  • Senior management with responsibility for the above areas.
FORMAT OF TRAINING SESSION
  • The training sessions are dynamic, interactive workshops of 3 hours (plus a 30 minute professional networking break).

  • They are tailored to provide practical strategies to ensure your business is compliant with the Fair Work Act 2009. The focus is on practical application of the law in commercial settings.

  • The sessions contain opportunities for questions, role-plays, discussion and the consideration of case scenarios.

  • This format accelerates learning and increases your ability to retain and recall the knowledge you’ve gained for immediate use in your organisation.
FIRST CLASS TRAINERS

Our trainers are highly experienced, including a practising lawyer who works in one of the top ten employment law firms in Australia. She works with clients day-after-day resolving non-compliance issues, providing strategic legal advice, solving employee-related problems and simplifying the law. When you ask questions, you’ll know that the answers are correct and comply with the law. That’s peace of mind.

PRESENTER

Sharlene Wellard, Partner

Sharlene is an experienced advocate and advises clients in many areas of industrial relations and employment law, including industrial disputes, enterprise agreements, underpayment claims, breach of contract claims, discrimination complaints and unfair and unlawful dismissals. Sharlene provides strategic advice to employers in relation to managing workplace change, including advice in the areas of restructuring, redundancies, drafting and implementing policies and employment contracts.

Seymour Maddison, Manager Professional Development & Training,
Workplace Research Centre, University of Sydney


Seymour’s background in human resource management has included roles with a strong IR and employee relations focus, as well as more generalist HR responsibilities. He has extensive experience working in private, not-for-profit and public sectors, in Europe and in Australia, including in strategy & management consulting, government, employment assistance, manufacturing, equity & disability, and tertiary education. Seymour's professional passion is devising highly experiential and applied learning and development programs. He has wide experience designing, facilitating and delivering to adult learners, from job seekers with a disability to senior managers.

 

WHERE & WHEN:    
1.30pm - 5.00pm Wed 28 April Crowne Plaza Hotel
150 Day St, Darling Harbour, NSW
PRICE:

$375 per person (incl GST)

$675 (incl GST) in total when you attend BOTH (save $75):
Enterprise Agreement Making: Legal aspects and strategic overview
Enterprise Agreement Making: Strategic Planning and negotiation skills

REGISTRATION:

Click here to attend:

Enterprise Agreement Making: Legal aspects and strategic overview (AM session on 28 April)

Enterprise Agreement Making: Stategic Planning and Negotiation Skills (PM session on 28 April)

Both courses (AM and PM sessions on 28 April) - save $75

For registration queries:
email: s.maddison@econ.usyd.edu.au
Phone: 9351 5717.

 
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