
Negotiation Services
Collective bargaining is a complex high stakes process. Whether your team is looking to negotiate a first collective agreement or you are looking to renegotiate a collective agreement professional help can help you avoid serious losses and create opportunities for gain.
Wakely Mediation offers collective bargaining negotiation services including:
- Negotiation Team Training
- Negotiation Strategy Sessions
- Outsourced Lead Negotiator
Negotiation Team Training
Is your team ready to negotiate? All too often collective bargaining teams have never sat together prior to day one of negotiations. With negotiation training from Wakely Mediation, you team will have a chance to learn the fundamentals of negotiations together. Collective bargaining is a nuanced process and focused sessions with the team and lead negotiator will prepare them for the task that lays ahead. Training should be completed prior to the beginning of negotiation. If you find your team in need of assistance mid negotiation, Wakely Mediation's strategy sessions may be a better fit.
Negotiation Strategy Sessions
If you have an experienced team and want to focus more on how to get where you need to go, our strategy sessions can be part of the solution. This intervention will be customized to your situation. If your team has yet to create a bargaining proposal, the focus will be on preparing a proposal and developing a strategy. If your negotiation is further along, the session will focus on how to get where you need to be and how to find a deal that is beneficial to you and acceptable to your other.
Outsourced Lead Negotiator
Whether negotiations have started or not, you may decide that it is better to hire an outside party to negotiate on your behalf. As Lead Negotiator Dave Wakely will help your team with strategy development and implementation.
Dave is a negotiator and mediator who is accustomed to high pressure and high stakes communication. For over a decade Dave negotiated collective agreements and grievance settlements. Let’s talk about how Wakely Mediation can help
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Define ZOPA: Zone of Potential Agreement
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Mediation Dos and Don’ts | What you need to know
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Reactive Devaluation
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Prepare for Your Next Negotiation
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Hey Teacher! Leave Those Kids Alone (Because It’s an Arbitrator’s Job)
Relations take on many different forms, grocery clerks can become customers of the store they work in, a firefighter can move to the city they work in, students can teach in the institutions where they study. What happens when the employment relationship is clouded by an overlapping relationship? This question was recently answered by the […]
What you need to know about Settlement Privilege
“What sensible man would attempt settlement if it could be used against him at trial?”1 This post will explore the development and limits of settlement privilege and how settlement privilege interacts with mediation. Settlement privilege, the ability to shield the deal making and the deal, is essential for negotiations and mediations. This paper is organized […]