The skills needed to write strategic letters and the ability to manage meetings are essential for the person who wants to reach the top.

This highly participative and informative two-day course takes delegates through the intricacies of two subjects: how to write clever and compelling letters during legal disputes and how to conduct successful meetings. No-one serious about operating within the field of labour law can afford not to know what they are doing in these areas.

Letter Writing

• Making and meeting accusations
• Setting up a case, from the side of both an applicant or respondent
• Defining causes of action
• Binding the other side to a version
• Playing dumb
• Use of questions
• Non-disclosure
• Ultimatums
• Vagueness
• Failure to rebut
• Undertakings
• Warnings
• Setting timeframes
• Consequences of non-compliance
• Pursuing settlement
• Without prejudice offers
• With prejudice communications
• Tactical case studies
  

Effective meetings

• Effectively plan for meetings,
• Agendas;
• Organise a structured meeting;
• Rules and conventions for meetings;
• Effective chairing and control of meetings;
• Accurate records of meetings
• Post-meeting processes.
• Follow-up and accountabilities

Use of plain English
Role Play

Johannesburg,  30 November and 1 December,  Indaba Hotel
Johannesburg,  8 and 9 December,  Indaba Hotel

One delegate: R 4 382.00 plus VAT = R 4 995.48
Two or more delegates from the same organization: R 3 943.80 plus VAT = R 4 495.32 per delegate