Effective Negotiating Skills
Effective Negotiating Skills Course Details:
This one-day live instructor-led class teaches the art of negotiating. YYou will learn how to identify objectives and variables, establish negotiation requirements, research the other party, determine concessions, formulate a plan for agreement, and determine the logistics negotiation. Course activities also cover the guidelines for conducting a successful negotiation and facilitating communication, questions you should ask and appropriate responses, and situations that require a specific negotiation style. You will also learn how to gain control in a negotiation, use various negotiation tactics, and deal with unethical negotiation tactics.
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Unit 1: Establishing your terms of agreement
- Topic A: Process of identifying objectives
- Topic B: Process of establishing requirements
Unit 2: Researching the other party
- Topic A: Gathering information about the other party
- Topic B: Estimating the other party's requirements
Unit 3: Preparing for an agreement
- Topic A: Determining concessions
- Topic B: Fundamentals of Logistics
Unit 4: Conducting a negotiation
- Topic A: Understanding the negotiation process
- Topic B: Communicating during a negotiation
- Topic C: Challenging negotiation situations
Unit 5: Advanced negotiating tactics
- Topic A: Control in negotiations
- Topic B: Negotiation tactics
- Topic C: Negotiation ethics
*Please Note: Course Outline is subject to change without notice. Exact course outline will be provided at time of registration.
- Develop an effective plan and strategy for your negotiations
- Recognize interests and issues and avoid unnecessary positions
- Become more persuasive
- Use techniques that draw information from the other party
- Minimize conflicts and deadlocks
- Ask and answer questions to control the negotiations
- Deflect personal, hostile, or irrelevant objections by reestablishing common ground in the negotiations
- Create a list of concessions that can be ìgivenî during the negotiation to use as bargaining tools
- Read body language, facial expressions, and other signals to uncover ìhiddenî messages
- Neutralize manipulative tactics
- Maximize closure opportunities
All individuals who engage in negotiations as part of their professional role.