★★★★★
After Module 5’s leadership briefing kit, our CFO stopped asking for “a simple yes or no on the wage table” and started asking which annexes were still open. That shift alone shortened our January consultation by nearly a day.
Reviews
Comments from people who used our Collective Bargaining Orientation modules in real German employment consultations.
Thomas from Nürnberg: the works-council dialogue craft module gave us a speaking order that kept overtime debates from looping. Still unsure how well it scales to a 40-person Betriebsrat, but for our twelve-member council it held.
★★★★☆
Platform-style note: “Tariff Annex Clinics track was dense in a good way. Would have liked a glossary handout earlier.”
We entered the course sceptical that an English-language orientation could handle German bargaining vocabulary. Retaining Tarifvertrag and Betriebsrat terminology in situ solved that. Our reservation: remote breakout rooms felt thin compared with the on-site capstone we observed in another group.
“The scenario on classification disputes mirrored a case we had shelved for months. We did not resolve it in class, but we finally knew which documents to request.”
Case study: Dual-site manufacturer in Freistaat Bayern
A 280-person manufacturer with sites in Hassfurt and a neighbouring district faced conflicting overtime interpretations between local managers and a newly elected council. Two HR partners and one council chair completed the Negotiation Desk tier.
Within one consultation cycle they adopted the Module 3 agenda format, limited the first session to facts and annex references, and postponed positional bargaining to a second meeting. Overtime disputes did not disappear, but both sides reported that minutes finally matched what was said in the room.
Case study: Shared-services HR across three Länder
A shared-services team supporting retail operations in three Länder used a Site Cohort delivery. Facilitators customised Module 4 scenarios to multi-site pay band questions. Outcome: a single briefing template now travels with every regional consultation, reducing contradictory guidance from central HR.