Saskatchewan Summer School 2024

This course will consist of five workshops from CUPE’s Local Executive Training (LET) series and an introduction to an education assessment tool, useful for your executive and local, which allows you to identify education needs. The individual workshops will include the following: • Good Meetings • Financial Essentials • Leadership Essentials • Leading as a Team • Conflict Ready Executives • Education Needs Assessments for your Local Leading within your union local has many facets, including how to run an effective meeting, and devising or revising bylaws so that they speak for and to the needs of your members and are not just empty words that no one understands. These workshops will inform you about parliamentary procedure, and the important elements of good bylaws. A further section on Conflict-Ready executives allows your local and executive board to prepare for and understand the inevitable conflicts that arise as unionists work together.

LET - Good Meetings
May 27, 2024 (9:00am-4:00pm (Saskatchewan))

"Have you ever sat through a meeting, either as a participant or a facilitator that you knew could be more focused, efficient, inclusive, or effective? We use Bourniot's rules of parliamentary procedure to make important decisions in a way that is fair. But sometimes a different kind of conversation is needed to be inclusive and build our movement. In this workshop, executive members learn a how to find and lead the right process for the work that needs to get done." Parliamentary procedure is an important part of our democratic process in CUPE. Some conversations are better had using other approaches. How do you decide when parli-pro is needed and when another approach could help? Build your facilitation skills for supporting effective and inclusive discussions, learn and practice some processes that you can use in your day to day work.

LET - Financial Essentials
May 28, 2024 (9:00am-4:00pm (Saskatchewan)) (8 spaces available)

This workshop is for all members in an elected position within the local union. Whether you are a trustee or a member of the executive, learning about the basics of the local union’s finances is a priority. In this workshop, you will learn about your duties regarding the finances of the union, budgeting and how to be transparent and accountable to members.  NOTE: This workshop is a pre-requisite for Secretary-Treasurers and Trustees wishing to take LET - Financial Officers.

LET - Leadership Essentials
May 29 (9:00am) - 30, 2024 (12:00pm) (8 spaces available)

Who am I as a leader? Who are we as a local union? How do we fit into the broader movement? Learn how to use the power of your elected position to build power and strengthen solidarity in the union, in the labour movement and in our communities.

LET - Leading as a Team
May 30, 2024 (1:00pm-4:00pm (Saskatchewan)) (8 spaces available)

In this workshop, executive teams explore power and responsibility that comes with it, how we work in teams and how to balance our leadership styles to engage the membership and work effectively across diversity.

LET - Conflict-Ready Executives
May 31, 2024 (9:00am-10:00am (Saskatchewan)) (8 spaces available)

In this workshop, participants will explore: - The value of conflict for effective groups - How our beliefs about conflict shape how we respond - The kinds of conflict executives struggle with - Productive ways to resolve conflict on an executive

LET - Education Needs Assessment
May 31, 2024 (10:00am-11:00am (Saskatchewan))

This is a tool for National Servicing and Education Representatives to use with their local executives.