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Recent training events:

Advanced Labor Arbitration Advocacy
Case Preparation & Presentation Skills
Workshop

October 17-19, 2006

AAA Seattle Office
701 Pike St., Suite 950
Seattle, WA  98101 

Participants will learn the following skills: 

Principles of Grievance Negotiation
Effective Fact-finding Techniques
Case Preparation and Presentation Skills
Understanding Witnesses in Arbitrations
Opening statements & Closing Arguments

This is a very organized explanation of theory, process, objections, phrasing questions during direct and cross-examination, and preparation to conduct an actual arbitration.  The workshop is set up to educate the first-time advocate or a seasoned veteran. 

Instructor:   Bill Hockenberry 

Bill Hockenberry is an attorney in private practice and, since 1983, a labor arbitrator, mediator, fact-finder, and hearing officer serving on numerous labor and grievance examiner panels in the private, public and federal employment sectors.  He is a member of the National Academy of Arbitrators and is a panel member on labor panels administered by the American Arbitration Association, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service and the National Mediation Board.  Dr. Hockenberry has mediated national and regional level collective bargaining agreements between city, county, state and federal agencies and their unions, and he has been involved in over 10000 grievance arbitration, mediation-arbitration, mediation and interest-based facilitation activities.  His decisions appear regularly in publications of the Bureau of National Affairs, the Labor Arbitration Information System, and the American Arbitration Association. Dr. Hockenberry has been an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland University College and the George Washington University, teaching more than 120 graduate and undergraduate courses in labor law, personnel and business management.  He has also been a continuing guest lecturer for numerous organizations, including Air Force Personnel Management Schools of the Air University, Department of the Army Civilian Personnel School, the George Meany Center for Labor Studies, International Masonry Institute, Air Line Pilots Association, Labor Arbitration Institute, National Railway Labor Conference, Federal Aviation Administration, Amalgamated Transit Union, Maryland Negotiation Service and at programs administered by the American Arbitration Association. 

ADR Options staff are available to present 1 or 2 hour workshops or presentations as “samplers” to introduce your organization to us so you can see if we are a comfortable fit for your mediation, facilitation, or training needs.  Below is a list of some of the topics we can present in these short workshops.  If you have suggestions for other “sampler” workshops, please let us know. 

Alternative Dispute Resolution -- A Menu of Options
Introduction to Interest-Based Processes
The Benefits of Mediation or Facilitation
Communication Skills
Workplace Civility 

ADR Options provides certificates to acknowledge participation in workshops or training.