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Negotiation Skills CD

Contents

INTRODUCTION AND AWARENESS

 

1. Negotiating the Learning Contract

To introduce participants to the concepts of negotiation. To agree the learning outcome and ground rules for the training programme.

 

2. What is Negotiating?

To enable participants to understand the term 'negotiations'.

 

3. A Four-Phase Model for the Negotiating Process

To provide participants with a four-phase model to apply to the negotiation process.

 

4. Identifying Key Negotiating Skills

To identify a number of the key skills used by effective negotiators.

 

BASIC NEGOTIATION SKILLS

 

5. Preparation for Negotiations

To demonstrate the importance of preparation in the negotiation process and to help the participants devise their own checklist to use when preparing for individual and team negotiations.

 

6. Seeing the Other Side

To explain how to focus on the benefits that a proposal offers the other party and to provide a tool for analysing benefits.

 

7. Questioning and Listening

To develop participants' questioning and listening skills for negotiating situations.

 

8. Negotiating a Range of Variables

To devise a negotiating process and skills framework for the participants to use in future negotiations.

 

9. Moving to Agreement

To enable participants to use different ways of closing a negotiation to reach an agreement.

 

10. Agreeing What's Been Agreed

To demonstrate the importance of recording agreements and how they have been reached in a negotiation.

 

ADVANCED NEGOTIATION SKILLS

 

11. Interactive Behaviours

To enable participants to recognise, understand and make effective use of non-verbal and verbal behaviours in a negotiation.

 

12. Power: How to Recognise It and How to Use It

To introduce participants to the concept of power in negotiations and to help them understand how to maximise their own levels of power and offset or limit the power of others.

 

13. Influencing Strategies

To identify a range of strategies that can be used to influence others in a negotiation.

 

14. Developing Trust in Negotiations

To explore the concepts and effects of trust and betrayal.

 

15. Offers and Counter-offers

To identify the skills needed when making and considering offers.

 

16. Collaboration v Competition

To explore the dynamics and effects of power and trust in multi-party negotiations.

 

NEGOTIATION PRACTICE

 

17. The Charities Committee: Multi-party Negotiations

To explore and give practice in negotiating in a multi-party situation and to give practice in negotiating over potentially emotive issues.

 

18. Halley's House: Negotiations Within and Between Teams

To enable participants to prepare for and undertake a set of negotiations involving multiple issues.

 

19. Alph-Beta: Negotiations Within and Between Organisations

To provide participants with the opportunity to negotiate an agreement in a highly complex and realistic scenario.

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