EXECUETIVE SUMMARY
This training course considers the importance of planning strategically for any negotiation and developing relationships through the application of influence and persuasion. Delegates will work on critical thinking processes to enable them to make better planning decisions in order to achieve success when negotiating alliances.
This training course will equip delegates with an essential framework for effective negotiation starting with the planning process and understanding why it is essential to consider the critical points in building and maintaining relationships. Delegates will have the opportunity to exercise and improve their influencing and persuasion skills and build higher-level communication ability in order to deliver results and maintain alliances for the mutual benefit of the parties involved.
This training course will feature:
- Applying critical thinking when planning a strategy for negotiation
- Defining the stages within a negotiation process
- Understanding the key issues in forming and maintaining alliances
- Discussing how to defend yourself from aggressive tactics and ploys in negotiation
- Developing higher level communication skills for influencing others
- Applying more influence when negotiating through practical exercises
FOR WHOM?
Personnel from a wide range of business disciplines
Delegates wishing to develop negotiation skills in alliance building
Delegates who regularly work with external suppliers or customers
Departmental Heads requiring to form interdepartmental alliances to achieve results
The Course Content
Situational Negotiating Strategies
- Negotiation purpose: Common terms and best practice
- Developing mutually acceptable solutions through value claiming
- Adapting strategies to situations when building alliances
- Personality - strengths & weaknesses in negotiations
- Opening communication channels to maintain relationships
- Applying Interests and Positions for strategic advantage
Functional and Applied Negotiation Skills
- How to reach 'win-win' in negotiation
- The keys to collaborative bargaining in partnering
- Leverage: What it is and how to use it?
- Negotiation tactics and ploys
- Dealing with difficult negotiators and barriers
- Ethics in negotiation
Persuasion & Influence Skills for Negotiators
- Challenges of meetings – group and individual strategies
- Positive persuasion in challenging situations
- Applying rules of influential presentations to maximize impact
- Maintaining compatible body language & using logic, credibility and passion
- Dispute resolution and mediating for better outcomes
- Mediation techniques - practical exercise
Higher Level Negotiation Skills for Challenging Situations
- Identifying and responding to signals and informal information
- Recovering from reversals, errors and challenges
- Developing a climate of trust
- Higher level conversation techniques
- Face to face negotiations; appreciating different cultures
- Practical Negotiation exercise and feedback
Critical Thinking and Decision Making for Negotiators
- Gaining control and using information – formal and informal
- Thinking patterns, frameworks and tools for negotiators
- Identifying sources and testing assumptions
- Framing the problem
- Decision making under pressure
- Reviewing strategic alliances and building personal action
