Announcing the Co-op Clinic Virtual Workshop Series: Weathering the Storms

Join the Co-op Clinic for a highly interactive training series tailored to both startups and established worker cooperatives, presented in English and Spanish with interpretation.

Three Thursdays in November: November 6th, 13th, and 20th
Time: 8:15-10:15am PT / 9:15-11:15am MT/ 11:15-1:15pm ET

Over the course of three weekly sessions, you will explore core capacities that strengthen the democratic control and business development of your co-op:

  • Session 1: Decision-making

  • Session 2: Operations and HR

  • Session 3: Cooperation among cooperatives

Space is limited so register soon to reserve your spot.

Who Is This Event For?

This workshop series is a space for deepening education and growing capacity for worker-owners. There will be designated space for both startup co-ops and established co-ops to dive in further. Co-op support organizations and the co-op curious are welcome to attend, but the training will be oriented for worker-owners as the audience.

This is not an intro-level event – if you are interested in an introduction to worker cooperatives, please explore our page with resources for startups and our startup webinars.

Benefits For Registrants Include:

  • Access to 4.5 hours across three bilingual workshops (with visuals, chat engagement, interactive and discussion portions)
  • Access to recorded content (in Spanish and English) for 6 months after the workshop
  • Access to bilingual (in Spanish and English) tools and presentation slides shared during and after the workshop
  • Learning, building, and sharing experiences and tools with workplaces across the country

Week 1: Decision-Making

This first week will help your cooperative:

  • Improve how your co-op distributes decision-making strategically, and empowers workers so your processes better reflect everyday life at work
  • Review the diversity of management structures
  • Review the nuances of structure, process, threshold, and voting. We’ll also review how to address dynamics of seniority as you engage with these.
  • Identify how to get unstuck, whether your co-op gets stuck in decision bottlenecks, analysis paralysis, or how to vet what should be on an agenda.

Week 2: Operations and HR

This second week will help your cooperative:

  • Get organized! Learn a new tool to sort through all your Ops & HR responsibilities
  • Improve your compliance
  • Understand the USFWC Worker Benefits Program
  • Design your policies to improve your workplace culture through evaluations, wellness, and member engagement

Week 3: Principle 6: Cooperation Among Cooperatives

This third week will help your cooperative:

  • Think directly about the business development for your co-op
  • Learn cooperative approaches for shared marketing
  • Review ways cooperatives across industries have solved similar problems
  • Get inspired by the diversity of models being tried across the world

How to Register

Please plan ahead as training access will be limited to the registered email.

You will need to register separately if you plan to have multiple people join from multiple computers / email addresses. If paying for multiple registrations as a business / organization is not financially possible, please can share a computer in person.

Cancellation & Refund Policy

No Cancellations or Refunds

We do not offer a cancellation or refund for this event, however we are able to transfer your registration within your business / organization if we receive notice at least 5 business days before the event begins.

Questions or Comments

Please email us at consulting [at] usworker [dot] coop:

  • If you have any questions
  • If you are no longer able to attend and need to transfer your registration