A comprehensive and practical three-day workshop for organisers and senior, experienced delegates.
This course covers the skills and techniques for communicating effectively with working people to motivate/shift them – to join a union, become a workplace leader, or to take action. The first two days of this workshop are kanohi ki te kanohi, with a short gap to the third day which is facilitated via Zoom.
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of the course participants will be able to:
- List the three key concepts underpinning the organising conversation framework
- List the 6 parts of an organising conversation
- Describe and demonstrate how to actively listen
- Utilise strategic open and closed questions in a pressure environment
- Explain the 70/30 rule of conversations
- Use questions to build rapport and explore issues that workers feel strongly about
- Draft and implement communication methods that motivate people to act
- Tell a story about workers winning through organising
- Project a positive vision for working people
- Explain the plan to win for their union
- Close out the conversation with confidence
- Demonstrate the organising conversation in pairs and small groups
- Actively observe an organising conversation and provide constructive feedback
- Explain why working people often object to change
- Understand where objections come from and how to move past them
- Feel more confident about the organising conversation framework
- Hold competent and confident organising conversations.
NOTE: This workshop is the second of three courses in the CTU’s development pathway, with the other two programmes being (1) Organising Foundations and (2) Developing Workplace Leaders.
Course dates
- 23 – 24 April 2025 (Auckland)
- 10 – 11 June + 7 July 2025 (Christchurch)
- 29 – 30 July + 19 August 2025 (Wellington)
- 20 – 21 August + 8 September 2025 (Auckland)
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