SERVICES

One-on-one coaching that meets leaders where they are through personalized and individualized support.

Service includes:

• Providing leadership with a confidential sounding board and thought partner.
• Support to leaders in developing cohesive plans and sustaining the laser-like focus needed to move all stakeholders in the right direction.
• Provides leaders with more comprehensive perspectives, which means “looking at old problems in a new light, as well as confronting new challenges with different tools and reactions.” (Bolman & Deal)
• Supports leaders in reflecting on their practices and gaining perspective on their north star.

• Services include:
  Whole group DEI training(s) where we offer a learning design specific to your organization’s needs. For example, DEI training that focuses on sustaining and leading for equity.
• Job-alike training sessions such as, whole group training sessions for superintendents that offer 101 strategies for how to get the conversation and work going as well as offering more seasoned executive leadership the tools for setting goals and focusing the DEI work.

Facilitation services between Unions and negotiating organizations.

Service Includes:

• Training on the Interest-Based Bargaining or IBB process for all stakeholders taking part in the bargaining process.
• Facilitation of the negotiating process from start to finish.
• The Interest-Based process includes the following steps in a joint problem-solving process:
  1. Identifying the Issue – What is the problem? What has been occurring? Why is it a problem?
  2. Identifying Individual and Mutual Interests – Why do you want to resolve the problem? What do the parties care about? What concerns them? What is at the heart of the matter? Why do they believe a change or contract provision is needed?
  3. Generating Options – The parties identify all possible solutions to the issue.
  4. Developing Standards for Selecting the Solution(s) – instead of using adversarial, power-based methods for arriving at a solution, the parties develop objective criteria to judge the options.
  5. Selection of the Solution from those options that meet the criteria.

What is IBB?
Interest Based Bargaining is a collaborative approach to resolving labor and management disputes. Through the process, parties proactively identify durable solutions to outcomes at the bargaining table. Agreements are based on mutual and individual interests rather than positions. This approach emphasizes problem solving and enables mutual gain outcomes. As with any Union and organization negotiations it is a process that takes on average six – nine months but incorporates a strength-based approach to bargaining and negotiations.