Negotiation skills

Overview

Throughout their careers professional s will use their negotiation skills to achieve success on behalf of their clients. The negotiator, therefore, often has to deliver without having the decision-making authority. Achieving the best possible, usually commercial, outcome from a negotiation can be the mark of a great professional service provider.

Delegates

This course is aimed at All professionals who are required to conduct negotiations.

Objectives. By the end of the course delegates will...

  • Have a model for negotiation
  • Have an understanding of the negotiation process
  • Have the skills to plan, open, run and even rescue a negotiation
  • Have their own favoured tactics and know-how to trade concessions
  • Have an understanding of the tactics the other side may use
  • Have the know-how to lock in agreed points and summarise to maintain momentum
  • Have a plan to get the points as agreed into an agreement

Commercial benefits

  • Highly effective negotiators
  • Improved negotiation outcomes
  • Reputation for delivering a commercial solution rather than race towards the technical solution
  • Clients who feel their needs, drivers and motivations are understood

Course duration: One day